W.E.B. Du Bois: “Yet for that man's crime this man lieth maimed and murdered, his wife naked to shame, his children to poverty and evil.”

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…

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.

In song and exhortation swelled one refrain—Liberty; in his tears and curses the God he implored had Freedom in his right hand.

Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!