W.E.B. Du Bois: “For this it must be trained in intelligence and in appreciation of the good and the beautiful.”

Years have passed away since then,—ten, twenty, forty; forty years of national life, forty years of renewal and development, and yet the swarthy spectre sits in its accustomed seat at the Nation’s feast.

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…

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.

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