Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

Oppressed people are frequently very oppressive when first liberated. They know but two positions: somebody's foot on their neck or their foot on somebody's neck.

Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth a slave, Are ye truly free and brave?

Am I not a man and brother?

The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro.

Must I dwell in slavery's night And all pleasure take its flight Far beyond my feeble sight, Forever?

I hear the mournful wail of millions!

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.