Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.

Let no man of us budge one step, and let slaveholders come to beat us from our country. America is more our country, than it is the whites-we have enriched it with our blood and tears. The greatest riches in all America have arisen from our blood and tears.

Now, I ask you, had you not rather be killed than to be a slave to a tyrant, who takes the life of your mother, wife, and dear little children? Look upon your mother, wife and children, and answer God Almighty; and believe this, that it is no more harm for you to kill a man who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water when thirsty.

Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

Allowing God to charge our lives that we may empower people around us to live In a greater relationship with him.