W.E.B. Du Bois: “Or, in other words, education is not a prerequisite to political control--political control is the cause of popular…”

The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.

He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.

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

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.