Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 7 : Chopin: From the Miniature Genre to the Sublime Style
“In all the relations of life and death, we are met by the color line.”
Speech at the Convention of Colored Men, Louisville, Kentucky (24 September 1883).
1880s, Speech at the Convention of Colored Men (1883)
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Quote in: 'Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art', Piet Mondrian (1937); in 'Documents of modern Art' ed. Robert Motherwell for Wittenborn, Schulz, New York 1945
1930's
As quoted in Hans Hofmann (2000) by James Yohe
1970s and later

“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.”
Source: To the Nations of the World, address to Pan-African conference, London (1900). These words are also found in The Souls of Black Folk (1903), ch. II: Of the Dawn of Freedom