A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.

In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.

Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.