The Constitutional framers were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did not shrink from agitating against oppression. They showed forbearance; but that they knew its limits. They believed in order; but not in the order of tyranny. With them, nothing was "settled" that was not right. With them, justice, liberty and humanity were "final;" not slavery and oppression.

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever... I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.