W.E.B. Du Bois: “Douglass, in his old age, still bravely stood for the ideals of his early manhood,—ultimate assimilation through…”

Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.

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…

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

He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.