W.E.B. Du Bois: “It must include, not simply white men, but educated and trained men of Negro blood.”

Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.

So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.

They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at…

Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.