America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins.

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.