W.E.B. Du Bois: “Is not the world wide enough for two colors, for many little shinings of the sun?”

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

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.

Three things characterized this religion of the slave,—the Preacher, the Music, and the Frenzy.

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