What To The Slave Is The 4th

You Degrade Us And Then Ask Why We Are Degraded. You Shut Our Mouths And Ask Why We Don't Speak. You Close Your Colleges And Seminaries Against Us And Then Ask Why We Don't Know.

I Know Of No Rights Of Race Superior To The Rights Of Humanity...

I Have One Great Political Idea... That Idea Is An Old One. It Is Widely And Generally Assented To; Nevertheless, It Is Very Generally Trampled Upon And Disregarded. The Best Expression Of It, I Have Found In The Bible. It Is In Substance, "righteousness Exalteth A Nation - Sin Is A Reproach To Any People." This Constitutes My Politics, The Negative And Positive Of My Politics, And The Whole Of My Politics... I Feel It My Duty To Do All In My Power To Infuse This Idea Into The Public Mind, That It May Speedily Be Recognized And Practiced Upon By Our People.

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

Once Let The Black Man Get Upon His Person The Brass Letter, U.s., Let Him Get An Eagle On His Button, And A Musket On His Shoulder And Bullets In His Pocket, There Is No Power On Earth That Can Deny That He Has Earned The Right To Citizenship.