W.E.B. Du Bois: “Can you imagine the United States protesting against Turkish atrocities in Armenia, while the Turks are silent about…”

This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.

And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe.

He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world.

Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.