W.E.B. Du Bois: “The influence of all of these attitudes at various times can be traced in the history of the American Negro, and in the…”

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

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it.

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

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…