"At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline."

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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.

— W. E. B. Du Bois