Without A Struggle, There Can

These Were Choice Documents To Me... They Gave Tongue To Interesting Thoughts Of My Own Soul, Which Had Frequently Flashed Through My Mind, And Died Away For Want Of Utterance.

[john Brown's] Zeal In The Cause Of Freedom Was Infinitely Superior To Mine. Mine Was As The Taper Light, His Was As The Burning Sun... I Could Speak For The Slave. John Brown Could Fight For The Slave.

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.

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.

Experience Proves That Those Are Oftenest Abused Who Can Be Abused With The Greatest Impunity. Men Are Whipped Oftenest Who Are Whipped Easiest.