W.E.B. Du Bois: “So far as it is due to chance and cheating, the argument for public ownership of capital is incontrovertible even though…”

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

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…

A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness…