W.E.B. Du Bois: “Yet today who goes to college, the Talented or the Rich?”

Through history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

The ballot, which before he had looked upon as a visible sign of freedom, he now regarded as the chief means of gaining and perfecting the liberty with which war had partially endowed him.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.