W.E.B. Du Bois: “Train them as workers and thinkers and not as playthings, lest future generations ape our worst mistake.”

Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.

I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.

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

Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.