While boasting of our noble deeds we're careful to conceal the ugly fact that by an iniquitous money system we have nationalized a system of oppression which, though more refined, is not less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

Bigotry is chronic dogmatism.

Ah! if the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well.

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.

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