W.E.B. Du Bois: “Without a more careful conservation of human ability and talent the world cannot secure the services which its greater…”

Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.

Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!

Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.

Three things characterized this religion of the slave,—the Preacher, the Music, and the Frenzy.