If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

Let the meek inherit the earth - they have it coming to them

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Reconstruction was a vast labor movement of ignorant, muddled, and bewildered white men who had been disinherited of land and labor and fought a long battle with sheer subsistence, hanging on the edge of poverty, eating clay and chasing slaves and now lurching up to manhood.