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

Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.

Liberty for all; chains for none.

Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.