W.E.B. Du Bois: “Neither Portugal nor Belgium has shown any particular capacity for governing colonial peoples.”

This waste of double aims, this seeking to satisfy two unreconciled ideals, has wrought sad havoc with the courage and faith and deeds of ten thousand thousand people,—has sent them often wooing false gods and invoking false means of…

So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.

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

Through history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.