It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection

He who is whipped oftenest, is whipped easiest.

... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.

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

...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.'

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.