W.E.B. Du Bois: “This situation could properly be met only by energetic and sincere international co-operation.”

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

The first decade was merely a prolongation of the vain search for freedom, the boon that seemed ever barely to elude their grasp,—like a tantalizing will-o’-the-wisp, maddening and misleading the headless host.

Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.

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.