W.E.B. Du Bois: “One hesitates, therefore, to criticise a life which, beginning with so little, has done so much.”

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.

Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a…

A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.