Our Destiny Is Largely In Our Hands.

Right Is Of No Sex-truth Is Of No Color-god Is The Father Of Us All, And We Are All Brethren.

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

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 Thought Of Only Being A Creature Of The Present And The Past Was Troubling. I Longed For A Future Too, With Hope In It. The Desire To Be Free, Awakened My Determination To Act, To Think, And To Speak.

There Is A Class Of People Who Seem To Think That If A Man Should Fall Overboard Into The Sea With A Bible In His Pocket It Would Hardly Be Possible To Drown. I Prayed For Twenty Years But Received No Answer Until I Prayed With My Legs.