W.E.B. Du Bois: “We will obey the law, but to ask for voluntary segregation is to insult ourselves." But strong, sober second thought…”

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.

Thus we have two great and hardly reconcilable streams of thought and ethical strivings; the danger of the one lies in anarchy, that of the other in hypocrisy.

But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them.

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