Once you read, you will be free forever.

The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.

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

Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening.

I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

The Constitution of the United States knows no distinction between citizens on account of color. Neither does it know any difference between a citizen of a state and a citizen of the United States.