If There Is No Struggle, There Is

In One Point Of View, We, The Abolitionists And Colored People, Should Meet [the Dred Scott] Decision, Unlooked For And Monstrous As It Appears, In A Cheerful Spirit. This Very Attempt To Blot Out Forever The Hopes Of An Enslaved People May Be One Necessary Link In The Chain Of Events Preparatory To The Downfall And Complete Overthrow Of The Whole Slave System.

Right Is Of No Sex-truth Is Of No Color-god Is The Father Of Us All, And We Are All Brethren.

The Thought Of Only Being A Creature Of The Present And The Past Was Troubling. I Longed For A Future Too, With Hope In It. The Desire To Be Free, Awakened My Determination To Act, To Think, And To Speak.

For Of All Slaveholders With Whom I Have Ever Met, Religious Slaveholders Are The Worst. I Have Ever Found Them The Meanest And Basest, The Most Cruel And Cowardly, Of All Others.

This War, Disguise It As They May, Is Virtually Nothing More Or Less Than Perpetual Slavery Against Universal Freedoms.