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.

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.