W.E.B. Du Bois: “America is conceived of as existing for the sake of its mines, fields and factories, and not those factories, fields and…”

But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them.

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.

Thus we have two great and hardly reconcilable streams of thought and ethical strivings; the danger of the one lies in anarchy, that of the other in hypocrisy.

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