Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither.

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

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.