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

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

Let us render the tyrant no aid.

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.