W.E.B. Du Bois: “Finally he urged unity, and deprecated especially religious and denominational bickering.”

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

Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.

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