W.E.B. Du Bois: “The experiment that has been made to give the colored students classical training has not been satisfactory.”

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

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.

This waste of double aims, this seeking to satisfy two unreconciled ideals, has wrought sad havoc with the courage and faith and deeds of ten thousand thousand people,—has sent them often wooing false gods and invoking false means of…

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.