If there's no struggle, there's no progress.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate.