The need for solidarity within the black community from "summary" of The Souls of Black Folk by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
In this age of the world, when we are told to be happy and content, and believe that we have attained our highest ideals, it is strange that men should ask the black man to give up his political power, his leadership, and his unity. It is strange that they should demand of him a sacrifice that they would not ask of any other race. The black man is asked to stand aside and see his race disfranchised, set aside as though they were not men, but simply things to be used or discarded at will. It is a difficult thing for a man to give up his rights, his privileges, and his leadership. It is a difficult thing for him to consent to be disfranchised, and to see his race disfranchised with him. It is a difficult thing for him to consent to be set aside, and to see his race set aside, as though they were not men, but simply things to be used or discarded at will. It is a difficult thing for him to consent to be used or discarded at will, and to see his race used or discarded at will. But the black man must consent to be used or discarded at will, and to see his race used or discarded at will, if he would be loyal to his race. He must consent to be set aside, and to see his race set aside, as though they were not men, but simply things to be used or discarded at will. He must consent to be disfranchised, and to see his race disfranchised, if he would be loyal to his race. The black man must stand together, must stand united, must stand firm, if he would be true to himself and to his race. He must not yield to the temptation to stand alone, to seek only his own advancement, to be satisfied with his own success. He must not yield to the temptation to be content with his own freedom, his own rights, his own leadership, while his race is still in bondage, still deprived of its rights, still without a leader to guide it. The black man must realize that he cannot be free, cannot be truly himself, cannot be truly a man, until his race is free, until his race is truly itself, until his race is truly a race, until his race is truly a people. He must realize that he cannot be a leader, cannot be a true leader, cannot be a true man, until his race is a leader,
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