W.E.B. Du Bois: “Rather the hint here and there of color discrimination in England aroused in him deeper and more poignant sympathy with…”

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

He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world.

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…

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