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The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.

W. E. B. Du Bois
Opportunity, Men, White Man
Interview with Ralph McGill, as quoted in "The Atlantic Monthly", November 1965.

America is not another word for Opportunity to all her sons.

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Son, Opportunity, America
W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.98, Oxford University Press

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