W.E.B. Du Bois: “Is this Thy Justice, O Father, that guile be easier than innocence and the innocent be crucified for the guilt of the…”

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

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

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.

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…