I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...

I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK.

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.