"In my own country for nearly a century I have been nothing but a nigger." -- W.E.B. Du Bois

"Those of us with experiences in the struggle have a historical responsibility to pass them on. Mistakes are the nursery of new ideas. so we must share them too; if we continue to hide and distort our errors, those coming after us will be condemned to repeat them. We cannot afford the luxury of leaving it up to historians to reveal what we did after fifty or one hundred years have passed. Present conditions demand that we tell our stories now."