W.E.B. Du Bois: “So in that little Oneida school there came to those schoolboys a revelation of thought and longing beneath one black…”

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

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.

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

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