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.

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Without Struggle There Is No Success

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments. The case is too plain for argument. Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.

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.