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

What is possible for me is possible for you.

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.