W.E.B. Du Bois: “She stands today shoulder to shoulder with Europe in Europe's worst sin against civilization.”

This waste of double aims, this seeking to satisfy two unreconciled ideals, has wrought sad havoc with the courage and faith and deeds of ten thousand thousand people,—has sent them often wooing false gods and invoking false means of…

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.

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

Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.