W.E.B. Du Bois: “Instead of seeking to push the coming generation ahead of our pitiful accomplishment, we insist that it march behind.”

Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.

The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.

So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.

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.