W.E.B. Du Bois on Poverty

“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk ch. 1 (1903)

Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

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