At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
From Frederick Douglass
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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