W.E.B. Du Bois: “Then the world changed; then civilization, built for culture, rebuilt itself for wilful murder in Europe, Asia, America…”

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

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.

Let the ears of a guilty people tingle with truth, and seventy millions sigh for the righteousness which exalteth nations, in this drear day when human brotherhood is mockery and a snare.

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