The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.

Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

The slavery of Negroes in the South was not usually a deliberately cruel and oppressive system. It did not mean systematic starvation or murder.

Education is the development of power and ideal.

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.