If the black man is feeble and not important to the existing races, not on a parity with the best race, the black man must serve, ...and be exterminated. But if the black man carries in his bosom an indispensable element of a new and coming civilization; for the sake of that element, no wrong nor strength nor circumstance can hurt him: he will survive and play his part. So now, the arrival in the world of such men as Toussaint, and the Haytian heroes, or of the leaders of their race in Barbadoes and Jamaica, outweighs in good omen all the English and American humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fit gravefellows you are for Lincoln, Brown And Douglass and Toussaint. . . all whose rapt eyes... Fashioned a new world in this wilderness. American earth is richer for your bones; Our hearts beat prouder for the blood we inherit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou hast left behind Powers that will work for thee; air, earth, and skies;... There's not a breathing of the common wind That will forget thee; thou hast great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and man's unconquerable mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »