If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.

Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution