On the recordJanuary 1, 1903
Thus we have two great and hardly reconcilable streams of thought and ethical strivings; the danger of the one lies in anarchy, that of the other in hypocrisy.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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In his analysis of Black American thought, this statement summarizes the inherent dangers of two divergent ethical approaches to racial uplift.
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