I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

I hear the mournful wail of millions!

The ballot is the only safety.

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.

Money is the measure of morality, and the success or failure of slavery as a money-making system, determines with many whether...it should be maintained or abolished.