At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom

[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.

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

No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in his own hands for guarding, protecting, defending and maintaining that liberty

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.