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

Once you read, you will be free forever.

These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to be thus engaged. Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up, and given thirty-nine lashes. They came because they wished to learn. Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness. I taught them, because it was the delight of my soul to be doing something that looked like the bettering the condition of my race

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can't expect that you're going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.

He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.