W.E.B. Du Bois: “Who goes to high school, the Bright or the Well-to-Do?”

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

Around us the history of the land has centred for thrice a hundred years; out of the nation’s heart we have called all that was best to throttle and subdue all that was worst; fire and blood, prayer and sacrifice, have billowed over this…

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

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