Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.

And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.