W.E.B. Du Bois: “And was this shifty dodging of the real issue the wisest statesmanship?”

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

Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.

Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.

And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe.