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

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

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

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever... I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.