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The choice is not always between the least and the greatest, the high and the empty, but only too often it is between starvation and something.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “The choice is not always between the least and the greatest, the high and the empty, but only too often it is between…”
Editor's note · Context
Du Bois points out that often the choices people face are not idealistic but rather about survival.
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