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.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

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

I hear the mournful wail of millions!

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

He who would be free must strike the first blow.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.