![]() And if we want to go back up, see how the foot bends, the muscle tightens, the teeth clench, the head, oh! the head wide and cold !Īnd this is why we must ask more of the Negroes than of the others: more work, more faith, more enthusiasm, one step, another step, another step, and hold on to each step! I am talking about an unprecedented rise, gentlemen, and woe to the one whose foot falters! That's where we scream from there we yearn for air, for light, for sun. Only us, Madam, you hear me, only us, the Negroes! So, to the bottom of the pit! That's how I hear it. There is the inequality.Īn inequality of summations, do you understand? To whom will one make believe that all the men, I say all, without privilege, without particular exemption, have known the deportation, the trade, the slavery, the collective ravishment to the beast, the total outrage, the vast insult, that all, they have received plastered on the body, to the face, the omni-niant spit! But of the common lot, there are some who have more duties than others. It is to think at ease, and out of the world, Madam. I ask too much of men! But not enough from the Negroes, Madame! If there is one thing that irritates me as much as the words of the slaveholders, it is to hear our philanthropists proclaim, in the best of spirits no doubt, that all men are men, and that there are neither whites nor blacks.
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