Let Us Render The Tyrant No Aid.

Poverty, Ignorance And Degradation Are The Combined Evils, These Constitute The Social Disease Of The Free Colored People Of The Us.

Your National Greatness, Swelling Vanity; Your Denunciation Of Tyrants, Brass-fronted Impudence; Your Shouts Of Liberty And Equality, Hollow Mockery; Your Prayers And Hymns, Your Sermons And Thanksgivings, With All Your Religious Parade And Solemnity, Are, To Him, Mere Bombast, Fraud, Deception, Impiety, And Hypocrisy-a Thin Veil To Cover Up Crimes Which Would Disgrace A Nation Of Savages.

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.

Knowledge Makes A Man Unfit To Be A Slave.

A Little Learning, Indeed, May Be A Dangerous Thing, But The Want Of Learning Is A Calamity To Any People.