They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.

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

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither.

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

I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

The opposite of compromise is character.