The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

A government, founded on impartial liberty, where all have a voice and a vote, irrespective of color or of sex--what is there to hinder such a government from standing firm.

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

The ballot is the only safety.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

I have one great political idea... That idea is an old one. It is widely and generally assented to; nevertheless, it is very generally trampled upon and disregarded. The best expression of it, I have found in the Bible. It is in substance, "Righteousness exalteth a nation - sin is a reproach to any people." This constitutes my politics, the negative and positive of my politics, and the whole of my politics... I feel it my duty to do all in my power to infuse this idea into the public mind, that it may speedily be recognized and practiced upon by our people.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.