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To the extent that a citizen's right to vote is debased, he is that much less a citizen.

Tyrannous exaction brings on servile concealment; and that again calls forth tyrannous coercion.

The economy of injustice is to furnish resources for the fund of corruption.

Poverty and ignorance are the parents of intemperance, and that vice will never be suppressed until the burdens of life are equally shared by all.

The breakfast was eaten in silence, the women humbled with a sense of their helplessness, and the men gratified with a sense of their power.

The average mind is slow in grasping a truth, but when the most thoroughly organized, centralized institution, maintained at an excessive national expense, has proven a complete social failure, the dullest must begin to question its right to exist.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

Such exclusion goes over 'the very brink of constitutional power' and falls into the ugly abyss of racism.

Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families.

The plea for this outrage was then, as it is always, the tyrant's plea of necessity.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen, and the contempt of our people for economy and frugality in their personal affairs deplorably saps the strength and sturdiness of our national character.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows.

I would ten thousand times rather that my children should be the half-starved paupers of Ireland than to be the most pampered among the slaves of America

Reader, it is not to awaken sympathy for myself that I am telling you truthfully what I suffered in slavery.

depriving individuals of the right to choose for themselves how to conduct their intimate relationships poses a far greater threat to the values most deeply rooted in our Nation's history than tolerance of nonconformity could ever do

Their life seems an immense disparity between effort and opportunity.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

any person haled into court, who is too poor to hire a lawyer, cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press

The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

The evil cannot be cured or remedied by silence as to its existence.

The press and even the pulpit, in the main either by silence or open apology, have condoned and encouraged this state of anarchy.