Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate.

I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.

Self-Made Men are the men who owe little or nothing to birth, relationship, friendly surroundings; to wealth inherited or to early approved means of education; who are what they are, without the aid of any favoring conditions by which other men usually rise in the world and achieve great results.

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.