To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting that those aspirations are for the best and greatest things. But with regard to the Negroes in America, there is a feeling that their aspirations in some way are not consistent with the great ideals.

Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.

W. E. B. Du Bois Quotes