W.E.B. Du Bois: “Nor yet is my knowledge that which servants have of masters, or mass of class, or capitalist of artisan.”

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

The silently growing assumption of this age is that the probation of races is past, and that the backward races of to-day are of proven inefficiency and not worth the saving.

So wofully unorganized is sociological knowledge that the meaning of progress, the meaning of “swift” and “slow” in human doing, and the limits of human perfectability, are veiled, unanswered sphinxes on the shores of science.

Would America have been America without her Negro people?