"That which is inhuman cannot be divine." — Frederick Douglass

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.