Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.

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

I will unite with anyone to do good, but with no one to do harm.

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

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.

I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.