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Question: the significance (How does this passage help illuminate the meaning of the work as a whole?) In failing thus to state plainly and unequivocally the legitimate demands of their people, even at the cost of opposing an honored leader, the thinking clases of American Negroes would shirk a heavy responsiblity, --a responsibility to themselves, a responsibility to the struggling masses, a responsibility to the darker races of men whose future depends so largely on this American experiment, but especially a responsibility to this nation, --this common Fatherland.