“Crazy for this Democracy” is a biting, trenchant essay by Zora Neale Hurston, first published in The Negro Digest in December, 1945. Following is a sampling of quotes from this wonderful piece of writing.

It was published when, after having served the country overseas to fight tyranny, Black servicemen and women returned to find that they still didn’t have the basic rights at home that they had fought for abroad. Segregation was still the rule rather than the exception in education, employment, housing, and more.

Though this essay speaks directly to that era’s Jim Crow laws in the U.S., it is still, sadly, applicable in many ways to today’s climate in America, where “othering” is growing more acceptable.

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