We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree.

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways.