It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
People might not get all they work for in this world but they must certainly...
At a time like this scorching irony not convincing argument is needed.
Where justice is denied where poverty is enforced where ignorance prevails...
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
It is not light that we need but fire it is not the gentle shower but...
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the...
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
A little learning indeed may be a dangerous thing but the want of learning...
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.
