What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
If there's no struggle, there's no progress.
It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.
The Constitution of the United States knows no distinction between citizens on account of color. Neither does it know any difference between a citizen of a state and a citizen of the United States.
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.