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

It is a well-established principle of law that every wrong has a remedy.

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.

This is a glorious region, and the air and life are intoxicating.

Bad local government is certainly a great evil, which ought to be prevented; but to violate the freedom and sanctities of the suffrage is more than an evil.

Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen.

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored Union win the grander victories of peace.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

We may hasten or we may retard, but we can not prevent, the final reconciliation.

Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy.

Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort.

To grow in self-control, in patience, in equanimity, is to grow in strength and power; and you can only thus grow by focusing your consciousness upon a principle.

Concentration is an aid to the doing of something; it is not the doing of something in itself.

Idleness and a strong will cannot go together, and procrastination is a total barrier to the acquisition of purposeful action.

If he is perplexed, unhappy, restless, or wretched, let him look to himself, for there and nowhere else is the source of all his trouble.

Man is a thought-being, and his life and character are determined by the thoughts in which he habitually dwells.

Nothing comes unbidden; where the shadow is, there also is the substance.

Reverie is a loose dreaming into which a man falls; meditation is a strong, purposeful thinking into which a man rises.

A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.

Dreams are the seedlings of realities.