Daily quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

• There has been no tragedy in modern times equal in its awful effects to the fight on the Jew in Germany. It is an attack on civilization, comparable only to such horrors as the Spanish Inquisition and the African slave trade. It has set civilization back a hundred years, and in particular has it made the settlement and understanding of race problems more difficult and more doubtful. It is widely believed by many that the Jewish problem in Germany was episodic, and is already passing. Visitor to the Olympic Games are apt to have gotten that impression. They saw no Jewish oppression. Just as Northern visitors to Mississippi see no Negro oppression.
  • The Present Plight of The German Jew, Writing on National Socialism, Pittsburgh Courier, December 19, 1936. Republished in Aptheker, Herbert, ed (1986). Newspaper Columns: 1883-1944. Kraus-Thomson Organization. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-527-25347-9.