W.E.B. Du Bois: “New England ships were early found in the West Indian slave-trade, and the more the carrying trade developed, the more…”

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

Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation,—we fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with theirs, and generation after generation have pleaded with a headstrong, careless people to…

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

So wofully unorganized is sociological knowledge that the meaning of progress, the meaning of “swift” and “slow” in human doing, and the limits of human perfectability, are veiled, unanswered sphinxes on the shores of science.