W.E.B. Du Bois: “Well, haven't you the courage to rise above a--almost a craven fear?”

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.

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…

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

A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.