I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

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

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!

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