If all the rights of the black race are thus withheld from them, it is just as certain as the progress of time that they, too, will have their Runnymede, their Declaration of Independence, their Bunker Hill, and their Yorktown.
Mann asserts that the denial of rights to the black race will inevitably lead to their fight for freedom and recognition.
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Whoever intercepts knowledge, therefore, on its passage to a human soul; whoever strikes down the hand that is outstretched to grasp it, is guilty of one of the most heinous of offences.
Of all the states in this Union, not one has on the whole such various and abundant resources for manufacturing as our own Virginia, both East and West.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
Out of universal education come genius, skill, and enterprise, and the desire of bettering one’s condition.
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