The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.

I hear the mournful wail of millions!

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.