Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

...I recognize the widest possible difference-so wide, that to receive the one as good, pure, and holy, is of necessity to reject the other as bad, corrupt, and wicked. To be the friend of one, is of necessity to be the enemy of the other.

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can't expect that you're going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate of our prison stands half open. One gallant rush from the North will fling it wide open, while four millions of our brothers and sisters shall march out into liberty. The chance is now given you to end in a day the bondage of centuries, and to rise in one bound from social degradation to the place of common equality with all other varieties of men.