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 discarde...
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