Great as are our human differences and capabilities there is not the slightest scientific reason for assuming that a given human being of any race or sex cannot reach normal, human development if he is granted a reasonable chance.
Du Bois argues that all individuals, regardless of race or sex, can achieve normal development if given opportunities.
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All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.
But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them.
This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.
Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.