“ The time has not yet come for a complete history of the Negro peoples. Archæological W.E.B. Du Bois
“ The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. W.E.B. Du Bois
“ The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. W.E.B. Du Bois
“ The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land. W.E.B. Du Bois
“ That the present social separation and acute race-sensitiveness must eventually yield to the influences of culture, as the South grows civilized, is clear. W.E.B. Du Bois
“ South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills, peering out from the shadows of the past into the promise of the future. W.E.B. Du Bois
“ Not a single Southern legislature stood ready to admit a Negro, under any conditions, to the polls; not a single Southern legislature believed free Negro labor was possible without a system of restric… W.E.B. Du Bois
“ In those sombre forests of his striving his own soul rose before him, and he saw himself,—darkly as through a veil; W.E.B. Du Bois
“ I have seen a land right merry with the sun, where children sing, and rolling hills lie like passioned women wanton with harvest. And there in the King's Highways sat and sits a figure veiled and bowe… W.E.B. Du Bois
“ How many heartfuls of sorrow shall balance a bushel of wheat? How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real! And all this life and love and strife and failure,—is it the twilight o… W.E.B. Du Bois
“ Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world wilderness. Let there spring, Gentle One, from out its leaves vigor of thought and thoughtful deed to reap… W.E.B. Du Bois
“ Golden apples are beautiful–I remember the lawless days of boyhood, when orchards in crimson and gold tempted me over fence and field–and, too, the merchant who has dethroned the planter is no despica… W.E.B. Du Bois
“ For every social ill the panacea of Wealth has been urged,—wealth to overthrow the remains of the slave feudalism; wealth to raise the cracker Third Estate; wealth to employ the black serfs, and the p… W.E.B. Du Bois
“ Conceive this nation, of all human peoples, engaged in a crusade to make the World Safe for Democracy! Can you imagine the United States protesting against Turkish atrocities in Armenia, while the Tur… W.E.B. Du Bois
“ But the very voices that cry hail to this good work are, strange to relate, largely silent or antagonistic to the higher education of the Negro. W.E.B. Du Bois
“ Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round… W.E.B. Du Bois
“ Awakening will come, when the pent-up vigor of ten million souls shall sweep irresistibly toward the Goal, out of the Valley of the Shadow of Death, where all that makes life worth living—Liberty, Jus… W.E.B. Du Bois
“ And the Nation echoed and enforced this self-criticism, saying: Be content to be servants, and nothing more; what need of higher culture for half-men? Away with the black man's ballot, by force or fra… W.E.B. Du Bois
“ This noticeable in the South, where theologyand religious philosophy are on this account a long way behind the North, and where the religion of the poor whites is a plain copy of Negro thought and met… W.E.B. Du Bois
