No People To Whom Liberty Is Given

To Drag A Man In Fetters Into The Grand Illuminated Temple Of Liberty, And Call Upon Him To Join You In Joyous Anthems, Were Inhuman Mockery And Sacrilegious Irony.

The Simplest Truths Often Meet The Sternest Resistance And Are Slowest In Getting General Acceptance.

He Who Would Be Free Must Strike The First Blow.

Having Despised Us, It Is Not Strange That Americans Should Seek To Render Us Despicable; Having Enslaved Us, It Is Natural That They Should Strive To Prove Us Unfit For Freedom; Having Denounced Us As Indolent, It Is Not Strange That They Should Cripple Our Enterprises.

In All The Relations Of Life And Death, We Are Met By The Color Line.