W.E.B. Du Bois: “They saw the spawn of slavery, ignorant by law and by deviltry, crushed by insult and debauched by systematic and…”

Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.

Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a…

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness…

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