“ We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed. Munia Khan
“ The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty. Israelmore Ayivor
“ It was the large number of outrages on women and the ever-present fear for the safety of their wives and daughters that drove Southern men to cold and trembling fury and caused the Ku Klux Klan to spr… Margaret Mitchell
“ It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, shrieking to its own kind, and privilege and property heard and recognized the voice of its own. W.E.B. Du Bois
“ IX. THE PRICE OF DISASTERThe price of the disaster of slavery and civil war was the necessity of quickly assimilating into American democracy a mass of ignorant laborers in whose hands alone for the m… W.E.B. Du Bois
“ Assessing Miller's rebuttal and the 1895 convention, W.E.B. Du Bois made a sobering observation. Miller had, on some fundamental level, misunderstood the aims of the white men who sought to destroy Re… Ta-Nehisi Coates
“ Although industry was now in control of the national government, the Republican party which represented it was a minority party; and Northern and Southern Democrats, especially Southern Democrats with… W. E. B. Du Bois
