W.E.B. Du Bois: “The day of the very rich is drawing to a close, so far as individual white nations are concerned.”

All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.

A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.

To him, so far as he thought and dreamed, slavery was indeed the sum of all villainies, the cause of all sorrow, the root of all prejudice; Emancipation was the key to a promised land of sweeter beauty than ever stretched before the eyes…

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.