W.E.B. Du Bois: “Yet the balance of iniquity is desperately large; but worse than that, it has aroused no world protest.”

Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood.

Around us the history of the land has centred for thrice a hundred years; out of the nation’s heart we have called all that was best to throttle and subdue all that was worst; fire and blood, prayer and sacrifice, have billowed over this…

Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world wilderness.

Let the ears of a guilty people tingle with truth, and seventy millions sigh for the righteousness which exalteth nations, in this drear day when human brotherhood is mockery and a snare.