W.E.B. Du Bois: “The indictment of Africa against Europe is grave.”

Thus we have two great and hardly reconcilable streams of thought and ethical strivings; the danger of the one lies in anarchy, that of the other in hypocrisy.

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

Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a…

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