The Life Of The Nation

People Might Not Get All They Work For In This World, But They Must Certainly Work For All They Get.

A War Undertaken And Brazenly Carried On For The Perpetual Enslavement Of Colored Men, Calls Logically And Loudly For Colored Men To Help Suppress It.

I Have Observed This In My Experience Of Slavery, That Whenever My Condition Was Improved, Instead Of Increasing My Contentment; It Only Increased My Desire To Be Free, And Set Me Thinking Of Plans To Gain My Freedom.

What, To The American Slave, Is Your Fourth Of July? I Answer: A Day That Reveals To Him, More Than All Other Days Of The Year, The Gross Injustices And Cruelty To Which He Is The Constant Victim. To Him Your Celebration Is A Sham.

No People To Whom Liberty Is Given Can Hold It As Firmly And Wear It As Grandly As Those Who Wrench Their Liberty From The Iron Hand Of The Tyrant.