W.E.B. Du Bois: “Indeed, the gaunt father who toiled night and day would scarcely be happy out of debt, being so used to it.”

But whichever it is, the meaning is always clear: that sometime, somewhere, men will judge men by their souls and not by their skins.

Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation,—we fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with theirs, and generation after generation have pleaded with a headstrong, careless people to…

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world wilderness.