"Our republican robe is soiled and trailed in the dust. Let us repurify it. Let us turn and wash it white, in the spirit, if not the blood, of the Revolution. Let us make our name of American, the kind…"

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."

"A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterward."

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

"Negroes have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but not a right to social and political equality with whites."