W.E.B. Du Bois: “For we know that as the world grows better there will be realized in our children's lives that for which we fight…”

Away back in the days of bondage they thought to see in one divine event the end of all doubt and disappointment; few men ever worshipped Freedom with half such unquestioning faith as did the American Negro for two centuries.

I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.

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

Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.