I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

Human beings have rights, because they are moral beings: the rights of all men grow out of their moral nature; and as all men have the same moral nature, they have the same rights.

It is through the tongue, the pen, and the press that truth is principally propagated.

If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.

Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it

Thou art blind to the danger of marrying a woman who feels and acts out the principle of equal rights.