The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

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.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.