W.E.B. Du Bois: “But Europe has done more to break down national barriers than any preceding culture.”

But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them.

The form and disposition of the laborers’ cabins throughout the Black Belt is to-day the same as in slavery days.

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

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.