A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .

Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.

I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.