Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

I have no protection at home, or resting place abroad. ... I am an outcast from the society of my childhood, and an outlaw in the land of my birth. I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner as all my fathers were.

A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury.