W.E.B. Du Bois: “It is not red, and blue, and green, but, ah! the shadows and the shades of all the world, glad colorings touched with a…”

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

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.

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

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.