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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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W. E. B. Du Bois
Age: 95 †
Born: 1868
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: August 27
Autobiographer
Historian
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
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Poet
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Great Barrington
Massachusetts
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
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