H. G. Wells Quote

Whatever America has to show in heroic living today, I doubt if she can show any thing finer than the quality of the resolve, the steadfast effort hundreds of black and coloured men are making today to live blamelessly, honourably, and patiently, getting for themselves what scraps of refinement, learning, and beauty they may, keeping their hold on a civilization they are grudged and denied.

The Future in America (1906)