Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.

Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.

Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

What is possible for me is possible for you.

Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress.

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.

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