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It is the husbands, brothers, and sons of women whom it has been most difficult to induce to consider women seriously or to acknowledge that women have rights which men are bound to respect.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois highlights the difficulty in persuading men to acknowledge women's rights.
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