What To The Slave Is

There Is A Class Of People Who Seem To Think That If A Man Should Fall Overboard Into The Sea With A Bible In His Pocket It Would Hardly Be Possible To Drown. I Prayed For Twenty Years But Received No Answer Until I Prayed With My Legs.

I Do Not Think Much Of The Good Luck Theory Of Self-made Men. It Is Worth But Little Attention And Has No Practical Value.

I Am A Republican, A Black, Dyed In The Wool Republican, And I Never Intend To Belong To Any Other Party Than The Party Of Freedom And Progress.

What, To The American Slave, Is Your Fourth Of July? I Answer: A Day That Reveals To Him, More Than All Other Days Of The Year, The Gross Injustices And Cruelty To Which He Is The Constant Victim. To Him Your Celebration Is A Sham.

When Men Sow The Wind It Is Rational To Expect That They Will Reap The Whirlwind.