W.E.B. Du Bois: “After the more comic manifestations and the chilling of generous enthusiasm come subtler, darker deeds.”

Thus we have two great and hardly reconcilable streams of thought and ethical strivings; the danger of the one lies in anarchy, that of the other in hypocrisy.

The form and disposition of the laborers’ cabins throughout the Black Belt is to-day the same as in slavery days.

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

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.