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W.E.B. Du Bois: “It demands that all people be alike or that they be ostracized.”

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It demands that all people be alike or that they be ostracized.
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W.E.B. Du Bois

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Du Bois argues that the doctrine of majority rule demands conformity and ostracizes those who are different.

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