"Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not, Who would free themselves must strike the blow."

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Original Language: English

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Stanza 76. Used (along with the quote from Stanza 74) by W.E.B. DuBois as the epigraph for Chapter 3 of The Souls of Black Folk.