W. E. B. Du Bois quote: [We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can ...

[We need reforms] to make the Negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds.

~ W. E. B. Du Bois ~

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