Once you read, you will be free forever.

This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.

[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

There is a class of people who seem to think that if a man should fall overboard into the sea with a Bible in his pocket it would hardly be possible to drown. I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.