W.E.B. Du Bois: “If not, let these states either have independence at once or, if unfitted for that, be put under international tutelage…”

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

Let the ears of a guilty people tingle with truth, and seventy millions sigh for the righteousness which exalteth nations, in this drear day when human brotherhood is mockery and a snare.

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

Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world wilderness.