Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
The ballot is the only safety.
The relation between the white and colored people of this country is the great, paramount, imperative, and all-commanding question for this age and nation to solve.
I hear the mournful wail of millions!
A man is worked on by what he works on.
[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.