A Slave Is Someone Who Sits Down,

The Soul That Is Within Me No Man Can Degrade.

The Marriage Institution Cannot Exist Among Slaves, And One Sixth Of The Population Of Democratic America Is Denied It's Privileges By The Law Of The Land. What Is To Be Thought Of A Nation Boasting Of Its Liberty, Boasting Of It's Humanity, Boasting Of Its Christianity, Boasting Of Its Love Of Justice And Purity, And Yet Having Within Its Own Borders Three Millions Of Persons Denied By Law The Right Of Marriage?

The Silver Trump Of Freedom Had Roused My Soul To Eternal Wakefulness. Freedom Now Appeared, To Disappear No More Forever. It Was Heard In Every Sound, And Seen In Every Thing.

In A Composite Nation Like Ours, Made Up Of Almost Every Variety Of The Human Family, There Should Be, As Before The Law, No Rich, No Poor, No High, No Low, No Black, No White, But One Country, One Citizenship Equal Rights And A Common Destiny For All. A Government That Cannot Or Does Not Protect The Humblest Citizen In His Right To Life, Liberty And The Pursuit Of Happiness, Should Be Reformed Or Overthrown, Without Delay.

No People To Whom Liberty Is Given Can Hold It As Firmly And Wear It As Grandly As Those Who Wrench Their Liberty From The Iron Hand Of The Tyrant.