W.E.B. Du Bois: “But Europe proposed to apply it on a scale and with an elaborateness of detail of which no former world ever dreamed.”

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it.

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness…

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.

The form and disposition of the laborers’ cabins throughout the Black Belt is to-day the same as in slavery days.