Sparks Commentary

“They [African Americans] had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate...

“ ♪ How many roads must a man walk down, Before they can call him a man? How many seas must a white dove sail, Before she sleeps in the...

“... That the said colonies and plantations in America have been, are, and of right ought to be, subordinate unto, and dependent upon the ...

“ ♪ Did you see Jackie Robinson hit that ball? It went zoomin 'cross the left field wall. Yeah boy, yes, yes. Jackie hits that ball....

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but b...

“We [the German government] intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare . We shall endeavor in spite of this t...

“♪ Katie Casey was baseball mad, Had the fever and had it bad. Just to root for the home town crew, Ev'ry sou Katie blew. ♪ ♪ On...

The original Constitution never used the words "slave" or slavery," but it sure did talk about them ... In the Constituti...

" ... that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth ." - Closing lines of  Abr...

"Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to...

"Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation. I would even go so far as to confess that we are musical anarc...

"No person held to service or labour [a. k. a. "slavery"] in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, sha...

"The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited...

"Boxing has fallen into disfavor ... The reason is clear: Jack Johnson ... has out-sparred an Irishman. He did it with little brutali...

"The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the ...

"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continu...

"The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounti...

"The plaintiff [Dred Scott]... was, with his wife and children, held as slaves by the defendant [Sandford], in the State of Missouri...

"The German Government, consequently, discontinues diplomatic relations with the United States of America and declares that under th...

"Sincerely and earnestly hoping that this little book may do something toward throwing light on the American slave system , and haste...