"...the coloured man looked at everything through the prism of his relationship to society as a coloured man, ....bounded by his rights and his wrongs, it has to be wondered at that he has progressed so broadly as he has. The same may be said of the white man of the south...in this respect I consider the conditions of the whites more to be deplored than that of the blacks...a truly great people..that produced great historic Americans from Washington to Lincoln, now forced to use up its energies in a conflict as lamentable as it is violent.
The coloured people....cherish a sullen hatred for all white men...[but] the race has been a world influence; all the Indians between Alaska and Patagonia haven't done as much."
From Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson
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