We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.

You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.

Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death. Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.

What is broken can also be mended.

My father told us that our people had been slaves in the desert and because God had seen fit to set us free, none among us should ever own another man. It had been written that every man belonged to God and no one else. But did women belong to God or to the men of their family? They could not own property or businesses; only their husbands could have that honor.

I wondered if damaged people ever got over what damaged them.