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

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

...of whom I can say with a grateful heart, 'I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in.'