W.E.B. Du Bois on the Problem of the Twentieth Century

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.”

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk ch. 2 (1903)

Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.