A Man Is Worked On By What

[...] Endless Action And Reaction. Those Beautifully Rounded Pebbles Which You Gather On The Sand And Which You Hold In Your Hand And Marvel At Their Exceeding Smoothness, Were Chiseled Into Their Varies And Graceful Forms By The Ceaseless Action Of Countless Waves. Nature Is Herself A Great Worker And Never Tolerates, Without Certain Rebuke, Any Contradiction To Her Wise Example. Inaction Is Followed By Stagnation. Stagnation Is Followed By Pestilence And Pestilence Is Followed By Death.

I Escaped From Slavery And Became A Leading Abolitionist And Speaker.

Despite Of It All, The Negro Remains... Cool, Strong, Imperturbable, And Cheerful.

Vainly You Talk About Voting It Down. When You Have Cast Your Millions Of Ballots, You Have Not Reached The Evil. It Has Fastened Its Root Deep Into The Heart Of The Nation, And Nothing But God's Truth And Love Can Cleanse The Land. We Must Change The Moral Sentiment.

What, To The American Slave, Is Your Fourth Of July? I Answer: A Day That Reveals To Him, More Than All Other Days Of The Year, The Gross Injustices And Cruelty To Which He Is The Constant Victim. To Him Your Celebration Is A Sham.