I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.

Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

You can always lie to others and hide your actions from them... but you can not fool yourself

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in this case, is to deny that there is a God governing the world. It is a truth which I thought needed to be told; and as whatever of humilation there is in it, falls most directly on myself, I thought others might afford for me to tell it.