I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.
Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country.
Common sense is very uncommon.
The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning it.
Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.
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.