A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.
James Weldon JohnsonThe colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
James Weldon JohnsonAnd God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.
James Weldon Johnson