It could as easily be overthrown as our belief in war, as our international hatreds, as our old conception of the status of women, as our fear of educating the masses, and as our belief in the necessity of poverty.
Du Bois suggests that societal beliefs, including those about poverty and war, can be changed just like color prejudice.
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