He bought a square mile or more, and for a time the field-hands sang, the gins groaned, and the mills buzzed.
W.E.B. Du Bois
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William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, writer, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community. He completed graduate work at Harvard University, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate. He was a professor at Atlanta University and over the course of his life wrote many books and articles. He spent the last years of his life in Ghana and died in Accra on August 27, 1963.
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So far as white men are concerned, this fact is to-day being recognized in the South, and a happy renaissance of university education seems imminent.
These powers of body and mind have in the past been strangely wasted, dispersed, or forgotten.
Can it be the end, so long as sits enthroned, even in the souls of those who cry peace, the despising and robbing of darker peoples?
A belief in humanity is a belief in colored men.
And, finally, need I add that I who speak here am bone of the bone and flesh of the flesh of them that live within the Veil?
The crime of trading in human beings has been for many years branded by the reprobation of all civilized nations.
The day of the very rich is drawing to a close, so far as individual white nations are concerned.
As long as this market shall remain open, there can be no hope for the civilization of benighted Africa....
We must face the fact that this problem arose principally from the cupidity and carelessness of our ancestors.
The using of men for the benefit of masters is no new invention of modern Europe.
Red piles the pulp of hearts and heads And little children's hands.