W.E.B. Du Bois: “The demand that an Africa for Africans shall replace the present barbarous scramble for exploitation by individual…”

The form and disposition of the laborers’ cabins throughout the Black Belt is to-day the same as in slavery days.

One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

Alas, with the years all this fine contempt began to fade; for the words I longed for, and all their dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine.

The ballot, which before he had looked upon as a visible sign of freedom, he now regarded as the chief means of gaining and perfecting the liberty with which war had partially endowed him.