A war undertaken and brazenly carried on for the perpetual enslavement of colored men, calls logically and loudly for colored men to help suppress it.

No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.

The ballot is the only safety.

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

Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere