W.E.B. Du Bois: “Civilization must show two things: the glory and beauty of creating life and the need and duty of power and…”

This waste of double aims, this seeking to satisfy two unreconciled ideals, has wrought sad havoc with the courage and faith and deeds of ten thousand thousand people,—has sent them often wooing false gods and invoking false means of…

Three things characterized this religion of the slave,—the Preacher, the Music, and the Frenzy.

Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.