The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
A battle lost or won is easily described understood and appreciated but...
One and God make a majority.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and...
America is false to the past false to the present and solemnly binds...
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who...
I am a Republican a black dyed in the wool Republican and I never intend...
If there is no struggle there is no progress.
Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.