W.E.B. Du Bois: “Because the blind, brutal crime of powerful and selfish interests made this path through hell the only visible way to…”

Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.

Through history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

In song and exhortation swelled one refrain—Liberty; in his tears and curses the God he implored had Freedom in his right hand.

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