Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.

...of whom I can say with a grateful heart, 'I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in.'

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

The opposite of compromise is character.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

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