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Time and effort will lead the negro up to intelligent manhood, but I almost doubt if it will be possible to ever lift this ‘white trash’ into respectability.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid expresses skepticism about the potential for poor whites to achieve respectability compared to African Americans.
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