W.E.B. Du Bois: “Strong and straightforward as this resolution was, time unfortunately proved that it meant very little.”

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!

Thus we have two great and hardly reconcilable streams of thought and ethical strivings; the danger of the one lies in anarchy, that of the other in hypocrisy.

All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.