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

Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.

[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to be thus engaged. Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up, and given thirty-nine lashes. They came because they wished to learn. Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness. I taught them, because it was the delight of my soul to be doing something that looked like the bettering the condition of my race

I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.