W.E.B. Du Bois: “Only faith in humanity will lead the world to rise above its present color prejudice.”

By 1830 slavery seemed hopelessly fastened on the South, and the slaves thoroughly cowed into submission.

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…

One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

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