While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.

You may be witty, but not satirical.

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable.