W.E.B. Du Bois: “And both things are true and both belong to this our world, and neither can be denied.”

Around us the history of the land has centred for thrice a hundred years; out of the nation’s heart we have called all that was best to throttle and subdue all that was worst; fire and blood, prayer and sacrifice, have billowed over this…

Such an assumption is the arrogance of peoples irreverent toward Time and ignorant of the deeds of men.

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood.