Once You Learn To Read, You Will

Let Us Render The Tyrant No Aid; Let Us Not Hold The Light By Which He Can Trace The Footprints Of Our Flying Brother.

We Have To Do With The Past Only As We Can Make It Useful To The Present And The Future.

If The Negro Knows Enough To Pay Taxes To Support The Government, He Knows Enough To Vote; Taxation And Representation Should Go Together. If He Knows Enough To Shoulder A Musket And Fight For The Flag, Fight For The Government, He Knows Enough To Vote.

This Struggle May Be A Moral One, Or It May Be A Physical One, And It May Be Both Moral And Physical, But It Must Be A Struggle. Power Concedes Nothing Without A Demand. It Never Did And It Never Will. Find Out Just What Any People Will Quietly Submit To And You Have Found Out The Exact Measure Of Injustice And Wrong Which Will Be Imposed Upon Them, And These Will Continue Till They Are Resisted With Either Words Or Blows, Or With Both. The Limits Of Tyrants Are Prescribed By The Endurance Of Those Whom They Oppress.

If I Have Advocated The Cause Of The Negro, It Is Not Because I Am A Negro, But Because I Am A Man.