W.E.B. Du Bois: “To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”

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

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!

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.