I Prayed For Twenty Years But Received

Right Is Of No Sex, Truth Is Of No Color.

The District Of Columbia Is The One Spot Where There Is No Government For The People, Of The People And By The People.

Though Conscious Of The Difficulty Of Learning Without A Teacher, I Set Out With High Hope, And A Fixed Purpose, At Whatever Cost Of Trouble, To Learn How To Read.

The Relation Between The White And Colored People Of This Country Is The Great, Paramount, Imperative, And All-commanding Question For This Age And Nation To Solve.

I Have Often Wished Myself A Beast. I Preferred The Condition Of The Meanest Reptile To My Own. Any Thing, No Matter What, To Get Rid Of Thinking! It Was This Everlasting Thinking Of My Condition That Tormented Me. There Was No Getting Rid Of It. It Was Pressed Upon Me By Every Object Within Sight Or Hearing, Animate Or Inanimate.