W.E.B. Du Bois: “Such degrading of men by men is as old as mankind and the invention of no one race or people.”

Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood.

If somewhere in this whirl and chaos of things there dwells Eternal Good, pitiful yet masterful, then anon in His good time America shall rend the Veil and the prisoned shall go free.

The silently growing assumption of this age is that the probation of races is past, and that the backward races of to-day are of proven inefficiency and not worth the saving.

But whichever it is, the meaning is always clear: that sometime, somewhere, men will judge men by their souls and not by their skins.