W.E.B. Du Bois: “We know in America how to discourage, choke, and murder ability when it so far forgets itself as to choose a dark skin.”

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…

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!

All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.