No federation of the world, no true inter-nation--can exclude the black and brown and yellow races from its counsels.
W.E.B. Du Bois: “No federation of the world, no true inter-nation--can exclude the black and brown and yellow races from its counsels.”
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Du Bois asserts that true global cooperation cannot exclude people of color from decision-making processes.
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