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

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.