Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.

Everybody has asked the question . . . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.