W.E.B. Du Bois: “Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?”

The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.

One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

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

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it.