To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
Without struggle there is no success.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
It is easier to build strong men, than to repair broken ones.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
