A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

Viewing the man from the genuine abolitionist ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed cold, tardy, weak and unequal to the task. But, viewing him from the sentiments of his people, which as a statesman he was bound to respect, then his actions were swift, bold, radical and decisive. Taking the man in the whole, balancing the tremendous magnitude of the situation, and the necessary means to ends, Infinite Wisdom has rarely sent a man into the world more perfectly suited to his mission than Abraham Lincoln.

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

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