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title: "4 Educated Negro Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [“The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-e-b-du-bois-2/the-south-believed-an-educated-negro-to-be-a-dangerous-negro-and-the/)

[W.E.B. Du Bois](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-e-b-du-bois-2/)

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> [“was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-e-b-du-bois-2/was-at-first-bitter-and-showed-itself-in-ashes-insult-and-blood-for/)

[W.E.B. Du Bois](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-e-b-du-bois-2/)

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> [“The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-e-b-du-bois-2/the-opposition-to-negro-education-in-the-south-was-at-first-bitter/)

[W.E.B. Du Bois](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-e-b-du-bois-2/)

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> [Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-louis-gates/really-the-values-under-which-my-generation-was-raised-in-the-50s/)

[Henry Louis Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-louis-gates/)

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