| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 17878 |
| QUOTATION: | To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (18681963), U.S. civil rights leader, author. The Souls of Black Folk, ch. 1 (1903). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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