W.E.B. Du Bois: “The principle of basing all government on the consent of the governed is undenied and undeniable.”

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

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…

All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.

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