Thus All Art Is Propaganda And Ever

Had It Not Been For The Race Problem Early Thrust Upon Me And Enveloping Me, I Should Have Probably Been An Unquestioning Worshipper At The Shrine Of The Established Social Order And Of The Economic Development Into Which I Was Born.

It Is, Then, The Strife Of All Honorable Men And Women Of The Twentieth Century To See That In The Future Competition Of The Races The Survival Of The Fittest Shall Mean The Triumph Of The Good, The Beautiful, And The True; That We May Be Able To Preserve For Future Civilization All That Is Really Fine And Noble And Strong, And Not Continue To Put A Premium On Greed And Imprudence And Cruelty.

The Nation Has Not Yet Found Peace From Its Sins; The Freedman Has Not Yet Found In Freedom His Promised Land. Whatever Of Good May Have Come In These Years Of Change, The Shadow Of A Deep Disappointment Rests Upon The Negro People,—a Disappointment All The More Bitter Because The Unattained Ideal Was Unbounded Save By The Simple Ignorance Of A Lowly People.

Actively We Have Woven Ourselves With The Very Warp And Woof Of This Nation, - We Have Fought Their Battles, Shared Their Sorrow, Mingled Our Blood With Theirs, And Generation After Generation Have Pleaded With A Headstrong, Careless People To Despise Not Justice, Mercy And Truth, Lest The Nation Be Smitten With A Curse. Our Song, Our Toil, Our Cheer And Warning Have Been Given To This Nation In Blood-brotherhood. Are Not These Gifts Worth The Giving? Is Not This Worth The Striving? Would America Have Been America Without Her Negro People?

Disfranchisement Is The Deliberate Theft And Robbery Of The Only Protection Of Poor Against Rich And Black Against White.