Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.

I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in itself. No Court in America, no Congress, no President, can add a single word thereto, or take a single word threreto. It is a great national enactment done by the people, and can only be altered, amended, or added to by the people.

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment; it only increased my desire to be free, and set me thinking of plans to gain my freedom.

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

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

He who would be free must strike the first blow.