W.E.B. Du Bois: “It is an unendurable paradox; it must be changed or the bases of culture will totter and fall.”

Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world wilderness.

If somewhere in this whirl and chaos of things there dwells Eternal Good, pitiful yet masterful, then anon in His good time America shall rend the Veil and the prisoned shall go free.

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

Around us the history of the land has centred for thrice a hundred years; out of the nation’s heart we have called all that was best to throttle and subdue all that was worst; fire and blood, prayer and sacrifice, have billowed over this…