W.E.B. Du Bois: “The theory was that within these bounds was Freedom--the Liberty to think and do and move as one wished.”

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

With other black boys the strife was not so fiercely sunny: their youth shrunk into tasteless sycophancy, or into silent hatred of the pale world about them and mocking distrust of everything white; or wasted itself in a bitter cry, Why…

But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them.

The ballot, which before he had looked upon as a visible sign of freedom, he now regarded as the chief means of gaining and perfecting the liberty with which war had partially endowed him.