Our Country Is The World-our Countrymen Are

Let Southern Oppressors Tremble-let Their Secret Abettors Tremble-let Their Northern Apologists Tremble-let All The Enemies Of The Persecuted Blacks Tremble.

In Proportion As We Perceive And Embrace The Truth Do We Become Just, Heroic, Magnanimous, Divine.

Has Not The Experience Of Two Centuries Shown That Gradualism In Theory Is Perpetuity In Practice? Is There An Instance, In The History Of The World, Where Slaves Have Been Educated For Freedom By Their Task-masters?

It Is For Us To Discharge The High Duties That Devolve On Us, And Carry Our Race Onward. To Be No Better, No Wiser, No Greater Than The Past Is To Be Little And Foolish And Bad; It Is To Misapply Noble Means, To Sacrifice Glorious Opportunities For The Performance Of Sublime Deeds, To Become Cumberers Of The Ground.

My Crime Is That I Will Not Go With The Multitude To Do Evil. My Singularity Is That When I Say That Freedom Is Of God And Slavery Is Of The Devil, I Mean Just What I Say. My Fanaticism Is That I Insist On The American People Abolishing Slavery, Or Ceasing To Prate On The Rights Of Man.