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

[John Brown's] zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light, his was as the burning sun... I could speak for the slave. John Brown could fight for the slave.

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.

This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to SPEAK.

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.