Echo
The color line
A quarrel, and then a method. Washington and Du Bois do not give the same instruction. Wells and Hughes answer with evidence and with a voice that will not stay in the kitchen.
1 · Booker T. Washington
Cast down your bucket where you are.Du Bois names the century’s problem in a phrase Washington’s compromise could not contain.
2 · W. E. B. Du Bois
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.Wells had a method already: put the light on the fact, and keep it there.
3 · Ida B. Wells
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.Hughes refuses the deferred seat in the song itself. He, too, sings America.
4 · Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America.