If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he knows enough to shoulder a musket and fight for the flag, fight for the government, he knows enough to vote.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

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

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

Our destiny is largely in our hands.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.