W.E.B. Du Bois: “We assume that only the wealthy have a real right to education when, in fact, being born is being given a right to…”

But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them.

Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a…

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…

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