We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

I have only to speak for myself; to speak for freedom for myself; to determine for freedom for myself; and in doing so, I speak and determine for the freedom of every slave on every plantation, and for the fugitives on my right hand.

Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

Where is the man, who, if asked to become a slave, would not hurl back the offer indignantly in the teeth of the oppressor?