W.E.B. Du Bois: “The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.”

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

So wofully unorganized is sociological knowledge that the meaning of progress, the meaning of “swift” and “slow” in human doing, and the limits of human perfectability, are veiled, unanswered sphinxes on the shores of science.

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

Would America have been America without her Negro people?