It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.