W.E.B. Du Bois: “We have attempted to enthrone any chance majority and make it rule by divine right.”

So long as the world stands meekly dumb before such questions, shall this nation proclaim its ignorance and unhallowed prejudices by denying freedom of opportunity to those who brought the Sorrow Songs to the Seats of the Mighty?

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

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

Such an assumption is the arrogance of peoples irreverent toward Time and ignorant of the deeds of men.