I envy neither the heart nor the head of any legislator who has been born to an inheritance of privileges, who has behind him agesof education, dominion, civilization, and Christianity, if he stands opposed to the passage of a national education bill, whose purpose is to secure education to the children of those who were born under the shadow of institutions which made it a crime to read.

But two things are wanting in American civilization - a keener and deeper, broader and tenderer sense of justice - a sense of humanity, which shall crystallize into the life of a nation the sentiment that justice, simple justice, is the right, not simply of the strong and powerful, but of the weakest and feeblest of all God's children.

If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.

Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.

I belong to this race, and when it is down I belong to a down race; when it is up I belong to a risen race.

I like the character of Moses. He is the first disunionist we read of in the Jewish Scriptures.

We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.