W.E.B. Du Bois: “They persist and are encouraged because of deeper, mightier currents.”

A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.

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…

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.

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