The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
The most ordinary Negro is a distinct gentleman, but it takes extraordinary training and opportunity to make the average white man anything but a hog.
To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself
Ignorance is a cure for nothing.
What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?