W.E.B. Du Bois: “Meantime, it had become clear to many in the United States that the individual efforts of States could never suppress or…”

A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.

Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.

The ballot, which before he had looked upon as a visible sign of freedom, he now regarded as the chief means of gaining and perfecting the liberty with which war had partially endowed him.

One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.