Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

One and God make a majority.

Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.

I will unite with anyone to do good, but with no one to do harm.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution