...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent....... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He has erected a multitude of new offices by a self-assumed power, & sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people & eat out... their substance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For my own part, I should not like to think that I ever rely on the protection of the State. But, if I deny the authority of the S...tate when it presents its tax-bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard. This makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects. It will not be worth the while to accumulate property; that would be sure to go again. You must hire or squat somewhere, and raise but a small crop, and eat that soon. You must live within yourself, and depend upon yourself always tucked up and ready for a start, and not have many affairs.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »