W.E.B. Du Bois: “There was no sweeter sight than Emma,--slim, straight, and dainty, darkly flushed with the passion of youth; but her…”

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

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…

Alas, with the years all this fine contempt began to fade; for the words I longed for, and all their dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine.

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