He would in that event be surer of the thing which he seeks if the hole in the ground were a hole in some grave yard, for then the hole might be pulled in after him, when he would find rest at last--surcease from all the cruel perplexities and inequalities of his American citizenship.
He poignantly describes the grim fate that may await those who seek justice in a hostile environment.
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Perhaps the common people would hearken to what the wise and powerful had rejected.
Whenever there is a contest between the oppressed and the oppressor, the weapons being equal between the parties, God knows that my heart must be with the oppressed, and always against the oppressor.
With unerring moral instinct he had from the start placed his reliance "on nothing but the eternal principles of justice for the speedy overthrow of slavery.
Our garb should be sack-cloth--our heads bowed in the dust--our supplications for the pardon and assistance of Heaven.