W.E.B. Du Bois: “We shall hardly induce black men to believe that if their stomachs be full, it matters little about their brains.”

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

This waste of double aims, this seeking to satisfy two unreconciled ideals, has wrought sad havoc with the courage and faith and deeds of ten thousand thousand people,—has sent them often wooing false gods and invoking false means of…

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.

All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.