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Consider, my reader,--if you were today a man of some education and knowledge, but born a Japanese or a Chinaman, an East Indian or a Negro, what would you do and think?
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois invites readers to empathize with the struggles of marginalized groups by considering their perspectives.
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