A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

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

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.