Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

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

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

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only increased my desire to be free, and set me thinking of plans to gain my freedom.

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