It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

I was broken in body, soul, and spirit. My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behold a man transformed into a brute!

Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.

I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.