They rage at the barrier which shuts them out from the society which they feel themselves qualified to enter, and they are always on the alert to discern injuries.

These injuries need not be positive, for neglect is quite as strong a grievance.
These individuals all spell negro with a capital and declare that they are proud of their race.

They parade its achievements--and these are not small when enumerated all at once--but they avoid intimate association with the great mass of negroes.

They are not at all democratic, and in a negro state they would assume the privileges of an aristocracy as a matter of right.

It would seem that their demand for full political and social rights for all negroes has for its basis not so much the welfare of the race as a whole, as the possibility of obtaining for themselves special privileges and positions of leadership.