Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

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.

Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.

You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.

What is possible for me is possible for you.

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.