W.E.B. Du Bois: “Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.”

Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood.

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

So wofully unorganized is sociological knowledge that the meaning of progress, the meaning of “swift” and “slow” in human doing, and the limits of human perfectability, are veiled, unanswered sphinxes on the shores of science.

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