| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 17872 |
| QUOTATION: | No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois (1868–1963), U.S. civil rights leader, author. “Bleeding Ireland,” The Seventh Son (1971, first published 1921). |
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