W.E.B. Du Bois: “A black stranger in Baker County, Georgia, for instance, is liable to be stopped anywhere on the public highway and made…”

The silently growing assumption of this age is that the probation of races is past, and that the backward races of to-day are of proven inefficiency and not worth the saving.

Let the ears of a guilty people tingle with truth, and seventy millions sigh for the righteousness which exalteth nations, in this drear day when human brotherhood is mockery and a snare.

So long as the world stands meekly dumb before such questions, shall this nation proclaim its ignorance and unhallowed prejudices by denying freedom of opportunity to those who brought the Sorrow Songs to the Seats of the Mighty?

Such an assumption is the arrogance of peoples irreverent toward Time and ignorant of the deeds of men.