W.E.B. Du Bois: “Thus we have a laborer without capital and without wages, and an employer whose capital is largely his employees’ wages.”

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

Words and music have lost each other and new and cant phrases of a dimly understood theology have displaced the older sentiment.

Like all primitive folk, the slave stood near to Nature’s heart.

The child sang it to his children and they to their children’s children, and so two hundred years it has travelled down to us and we sing it to our children, knowing as little as our fathers what its words may mean, but knowing well the…