W.E.B. Du Bois: “Absolutely without excuse she established a caste system, rushed into preparation for war, and conquered tropical…”

He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world.

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.

Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!

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.