If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.
He who would be free must strike the first blow.
Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.
I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.