I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.

They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.