W.E.B. Du Bois: “Such possible voters must be regarded, not as sharers of a limited treasure, but as sources of new national wisdom and…”

So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.

He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world.

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

He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.