The Thing Worse Than Rebellion Is The

It Is Easier To Build Strong Children Than To Repair Broken Men.

Experience Proves That Those Are Oftenest Abused Who Can Be Abused With The Greatest Impunity. Men Are Whipped Oftenest Who Are Whipped Easiest.

I Have Observed This In My Experience Of Slavery, - That Whenever My Condition Was Improved, Instead Of Its Increasing My Contentment, It Only Increased My Desire To Be Free, And Set Me To Thinking Of Plans To Gain My Freedom. I Have Found That, To Make A Contented Slave, It Is Necessary To Make A Thoughtless One. It Is Necessary To Darken His Moral And Mental Vision, And, As Far As Possible, To Annihilate The Power Of Reason. He Must Be Able To Detect No Inconsistencies In Slavery; He Must Be Made To Feel That Slavery Is Right; And He Can Be Brought To That Only When He Ceased To Be A Man.

There Is A Class Of People Who Seem To Think That If A Man Should Fall Overboard Into The Sea With A Bible In His Pocket It Would Hardly Be Possible To Drown. I Prayed For Twenty Years But Received No Answer Until I Prayed With My Legs.

I Know No Class Of My Fellowmen, However Just, Enlightened, And Humane, Which Can Be Wisely And Safely Trusted Absolutely With The Liberties Of Any Other Class.