W.E.B. Du Bois: “We are spending one dollar for education where we should spend ten dollars.”

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

Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!

I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.

In song and exhortation swelled one refrain—Liberty; in his tears and curses the God he implored had Freedom in his right hand.