W.E.B. Du Bois: “It is so much easier to assume that we know it all.”

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.

If somewhere in this whirl and chaos of things there dwells Eternal Good, pitiful yet masterful, then anon in His good time America shall rend the Veil and the prisoned shall go free.

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.