W.E.B. Du Bois: “Twenty centuries after Christ, Black Africa,--prostrated, raped, and shamed, lies at the feet of the conquering…”

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

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

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…

The silently growing assumption of this age is that the probation of races is past, and that the backward races of to-day are of proven inefficiency and not worth the saving.