Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

It was a glorious resurrection, from the tomb of slavery, to the heaven of slavery. My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.

To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.

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