W.E.B. Du Bois: “Slowly they became, not white folks, but folks.”

But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them.

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…

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

So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.