Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress.

It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.