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

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the land. What is to be thought of a nation boasting of its liberty, boasting of it's humanity, boasting of its Christianity, boasting of its love of justice and purity, and yet having within its own borders three millions of persons denied by law the right of marriage?

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

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.

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

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

Liberty for all; chains for none.