W.E.B. Du Bois: “Why not always yield--always take what's offered,--always bow to force, whether of cannon or dislike?”

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

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

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…

If somewhere in this whirl and chaos of things there dwells Eternal Good, pitiful yet masterful, then anon in His good time America shall rend the Veil and the prisoned shall go free.