W.E.B. Du Bois: “In industry, monarchy and the aristocracy rule, and there are those who, calling themselves democratic, believe that…”

Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.

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

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.

One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.