A insignificant right becomes important when it is assailed.

The best time to do a thing is when it can be done.

How quickly nature falls into revoltWhen gold becomes her object!

Color had been made the mark of enslavement and was taken to be also the mark of inferiority; for prejudice does not reason, or it would not be prejudice... If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.

To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.

If prejudice could reason, it would dispel itself.