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.

I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

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

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.

Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.

I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.

He who would be free must strike the first blow.