The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

My hopes were never brighter than now.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!

The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

There is a class of people who seem to think that if a man should fall overboard into the sea with a Bible in his pocket it would hardly be possible to drown. I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.