W.E.B. Du Bois: “From this inner torment of souls the human scene without has interpreted itself to me in unusual and even illuminating…”

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…

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.