W.E.B. Du Bois: “Thus Negro suffrage ended a civil war by beginning a race feud.”

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

So wofully unorganized is sociological knowledge that the meaning of progress, the meaning of “swift” and “slow” in human doing, and the limits of human perfectability, are veiled, unanswered sphinxes on the shores of science.

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

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