W.E.B. Du Bois: “When, now, two of these movements--woman and color--combine in one, the combination has deep meaning.”

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

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

But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them.

This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.