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

In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.

Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.