I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. the desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
My hopes were never brighter than now.
I recognize the republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
I hope your rambles have been sweet, and your reveries spacious