The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
