If there's no struggle, there's no progress.

Without Struggle There Is No Success

If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he knows enough to shoulder a musket and fight for the flag, fight for the government, he knows enough to vote.

Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

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

Oppression makes a wise man mad.