BENJAMIN BANNEKER

… fresh proof that the powers of the mind are disconnected with the color of the skin.

Office for Butchering the Human Species Widow and Orphan Making Office Office for Broken Bones & Wooden Legs In the lobby ... let there be painted the representations of all the common military instruments of death; also human skulls, broken bones, unveined and putrefying dead bodies ... Above all this group of woful figures, let the following words be inserted in red characters, to represent human blood: NATIONAL GLORY.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who profess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race, from whatever burden of oppression they may labour under.

How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.

Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Were there no uniforms, there would probably be no armies.

Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.

Among the many defects that have been pointed out in the Federal Constitution ... is an office for promoting and preserving perpetual peace in our country.... Let a Secretary of Peace be established.

Office for Butchering the Human Species Widow and Orphan Making Office Office for Broken Bones & Wooden Legs In the lobby ... let there be painted the representations of all the common military instruments of death; also human skulls, broken bones, unveined and putrefying dead bodies ... Above all this group of woful figures, let the following words be inserted in red characters, to represent human blood: NATIONAL GLORY.

It is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who profess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race, from whatever burden of oppression they may labour under.

How pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves