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The American Constitution Is A Written Instrument Full And Complete In Itself. No Court In America, No Congress, No President, Can Add A Single Word Thereto, Or Take A Single Word Threreto. It Is A Great National Enactment Done By The People, And Can Only Be Altered, Amended, Or Added To By The People.

Power Concedes Nothing Without Demand. It Never Has And Never Will. Show Me The Exact Amount Of Wrong And Injustices That Are Visited Upon A Person And I Will Show You The Exact Amount Of Words Endured By These People.

These Dear Souls Came Not To Sabbath School Because It Was Popular To Do So, Nor Did I Teach Them Because It Was Reputable To Be Thus Engaged. Every Moment They Spent In That School, They Were Liable To Be Taken Up, And Given Thirty-nine Lashes. They Came Because They Wished To Learn. Their Minds Had Been Starved By Their Cruel Masters. They Had Been Shut Up In Mental Darkness. I Taught Them, Because It Was The Delight Of My Soul To Be Doing Something That Looked Like The Bettering The Condition Of My Race

Despite Of It All, The Negro Remains... Cool, Strong, Imperturbable, And Cheerful.

For It Is Not Light That Is Needed, But Fire; It Is Not The Gentle Shower, But Thunder. We Need The Storm, The Whirlwind, And The Earthquake. The Feeling In The Nation Must Be Quickened, The Conscience Of The Nation Must Be Roused, The Propriety Of The Nation Must Be Startled, The Hypocrisy Of The Nation Must Be Exposed: And Its Crimes Against God And Man Must Be Denounced.