In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can't expect that you're going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.

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

A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

A man is worked on by what he works on.

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.