A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.

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

I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored mans cause than those of the Democratic party.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

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