You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

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

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.

[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.

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.

You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.