Here in the heavens and on the mountaintops, the air of Freedom is wide, almost limitless, for here, in the highest stretches, individual freedom harms no man, and, therefore, no man has the right to limit it.
Du Bois reflects on the expansive nature of individual freedom in ideal conditions.
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The first decade was merely a prolongation of the vain search for freedom, the boon that seemed ever barely to elude their grasp,—like a tantalizing will-o’-the-wisp, maddening and misleading the headless host.
A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.
So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.