For Of All Slaveholders With Whom I

At A Time Like This, Scorching Irony, Not Convincing Argument, Is Needed.

I Prayed For Twenty Years But Received No Answer Until I Prayed With My Legs.

You Degrade Us And Then Ask Why We Are Degraded. You Shut Our Mouths And Ask Why We Don't Speak. You Close Your Colleges And Seminaries Against Us And Then Ask Why We Don't Know.

This Struggle May Be A Moral One, Or It May Be A Physical One, And It May Be Both Moral And Physical, But It Must Be A Struggle. Power Concedes Nothing Without A Demand. It Never Did And It Never Will. Find Out Just What Any People Will Quietly Submit To And You Have Found Out The Exact Measure Of Injustice And Wrong Which Will Be Imposed Upon Them, And These Will Continue Till They Are Resisted With Either Words Or Blows, Or With Both. The Limits Of Tyrants Are Prescribed By The Endurance Of Those Whom They Oppress.

Those Who Profess To Favor Freedom, And Yet Depreciate Agitation, Are Men Who Want Crops Without Plowing Up The Ground.