"And of course you are mad, if by a madman we mean a mind that questions and rejects every civilized norm."

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Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.

— W. E. B. Du Bois