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W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963

Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

W. E. B. Du Bois on knowledge

The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. XII: Of Alexander Crummell

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