W.E.B. Du Bois: “There is not the slightest chance of our being admitted to white camps; therefore, it is either a case of a 'Jim-Crow'…”

He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.

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

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

I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.