Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

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

Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

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