The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.
I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored mans cause than those of the Democratic party.
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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.