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

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

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

Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.

Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises.

Grandmother pointed out my brother Perry, my sister Sarah, and my sister Eliza, who stood in the group. I had never seen my brother nor my sisters before; and, though I had sometimes heard of them, and felt a curious interest in them, I really did not understand what they were to me, or I to them. We were brothers and sisters, but what of that? Why should they be attached to me, or I to them? Brothers and sisters were by blood; but slavery had made us strangers. I heard the words brother and sisters, and knew they must mean something; but slavery had robbed these terms of their true meaning.