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And cannot personal service and companionship be coupled with friendship and love where it belongs and whence it can never be divorced without degradation and pain?
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Editor's note · Context
Here, Du Bois expresses the idea that personal service should be rooted in genuine human connections rather than servitude.
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