W.E.B. Du Bois: “What the black laborer needs is careful personal guidance, group leadership of men with hearts in their bosoms, to train…”

Such an assumption is the arrogance of peoples irreverent toward Time and ignorant of the deeds of men.

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world wilderness.

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.