W.E.B. Du Bois: “Sit not longer blind, Lord God, deaf to our prayer and dumb to our dumb suffering.”

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

Alas, with the years all this fine contempt began to fade; for the words I longed for, and all their dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine.

A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.

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.