Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.

If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.

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.

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

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

You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.