W.E.B. Du Bois: “Words and music have lost each other and new and cant phrases of a dimly understood theology have displaced the older…”

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

But whichever it is, the meaning is always clear: that sometime, somewhere, men will judge men by their souls and not by their skins.

The silently growing assumption of this age is that the probation of races is past, and that the backward races of to-day are of proven inefficiency and not worth the saving.

Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood.