W.E.B. Du Bois: “In the attitude of the American mind toward Negro suffrage can be traced with unusual accuracy the prevalent conceptions…”

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

Such an assumption is the arrogance of peoples irreverent toward Time and ignorant of the deeds of men.

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.

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