Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

He who would be free must strike the first blow.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall.