W.E.B. Du Bois: “It is the business of a modern government to see to it, first, that the number of ignorant within its bounds is reduced…”

Let the ears of a guilty people tingle with truth, and seventy millions sigh for the righteousness which exalteth nations, in this drear day when human brotherhood is mockery and a snare.

But whichever it is, the meaning is always clear: that sometime, somewhere, men will judge men by their souls and not by their skins.

Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood.

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.