Opportunity Is Important But Exertion Is Indispensable.

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

It Is Better To Be Part Of A Great Whole Than To Be The Whole Of A Small Part.

There Are At The Present Moment Many Colored Men In The Confederate Army Doing Duty Not Only As Cooks, Servants And Laborers , But As Real Soldiers, Having Muskets On Their Shoulders, And Bullets In Their Pockets, Ready To Shoot Down Loyal Troops, And Do All That Soldiers May To Destroy The Federal Government And Build Up That Of The Traitors And Rebels.

We Are Free To Say That In Respect To Political Rights, We Hold Women To Be Justly Entitled To All We Claim For Men.

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.