W.E.B. Du Bois: “The paradox which faces the civilized world today is that democratic control is everywhere limited in its control of…”

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

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…

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.

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