Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.

The worker must work for the glory of his handiwork, not simply for pay; the thinker must think for truth, not for fame.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society

Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.

But we do not merely protest; we make renewed demand for freedom in that vast kingdom of the human spirit where freedom has ever had the right to dwell:the expressing of thought to unstuffed ears; the dreaming of dreams by untwisted souls.