I Believe In Liberty For All Men:

Unfortunately There Was One Thing That The White South Feared More Than Negro Dishonesty, Ignorance, And Incompetency, And That Was Negro Honesty, Knowledge, And Efficiency.

It Is A Peculiar Sensation, This Double-consciousness, This Sense Of Always Looking At One's Self Through The Eyes Of Others, Of Measuring One's Soul By The Tape Of A World That Looks On In Amused Contempt And Pity.

Today I See More Clearly Than Yesterday That The Back Of The Problem Of Race And Color Lies A Greater Problem Which Both Obscures And Implements It: And That Is The Fact That So Many Civilized Persons Are Willing To Live In Comfort Even If The Price Of This Is Poverty, Ignorance, And Disease Of The Majority Of Their Fellow Men.

I Most Sincerely Doubt If Any Other Race Of Women Could Have Brought Its Fineness Up Through So Devilish A Fire.

One Is Astonished In The Study Of History At The Recurrence Of The Idea That Evil Must Be Forgotten, Distorted, Skimmed Over. We Must Not Remember That Daniel Webster Got Drunk But Only That He Was A Splendid Constitutional Lawyer. We Must Forget That George Washington Was A Slave Owner . . . And Simply Remember The Things We Regard As Creditable And Inspiring. The Difficulty, Of Course, With This Philosophy Is That History Loses Its Value As An Incentive And Example; It Paints Perfect Man And Noble Nations, But It Does Not Tell The Truth.