A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people. |
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. |
What to the Slave is the 4th of July. |
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted. |
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. |
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. |
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. |
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. |
Without a struggle, there can be no progress. |
One and God make a majority. |
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. |
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. |
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them. |
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work. |
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Topics: Children |
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him. |
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. |
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. |
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. |
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. |