If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been well learned by the ignorant classes?

Great lives never go out; they go on.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.