W.E.B. Du Bois: “This situation could properly be met only by energetic and sincere international co-operation.”

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.

So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.

The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.