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.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine.

The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither.

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.