W.E.B. Du Bois: “It is a sufficient answer to point to the fact, that unrestricted immigration has not diminished the value of labor in…”

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.

Through history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.

One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.