You Have To Take Power. No One

Though Conscious Of The Difficulty Of Learning Without A Teacher, I Set Out With High Hope, And A Fixed Purpose, At Whatever Cost Of Trouble, To Learn How To Read.

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

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.

The Ballot Is The Only Safety.

Yet People In General Will Say They Like Colored Men As Well As Any Other, But In Their Proper Place.