W.E.B. Du Bois: “The net indebtedness of the black tenant families of the whole county must have been at least sixty thousand dollars.”

The silently growing assumption of this age is that the probation of races is past, and that the backward races of to-day are of proven inefficiency and not worth the saving.

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.

But whichever it is, the meaning is always clear: that sometime, somewhere, men will judge men by their souls and not by their skins.

Such an assumption is the arrogance of peoples irreverent toward Time and ignorant of the deeds of men.