W.E.B. Du Bois: “Neither and both: teach the workers to work and the thinkers to think; make carpenters of carpenters, and philosophers…”

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…

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.

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

The first decade was merely a prolongation of the vain search for freedom, the boon that seemed ever barely to elude their grasp,—like a tantalizing will-o’-the-wisp, maddening and misleading the headless host.