It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

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

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .

I had as well be killed running as die standing

I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.

Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God's truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment.

Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim, no sanction to the claim, of property in man. If in its origin slavery had any relation to the government, it was only as the scaffolding to the magnificent structure, to be removed as soon as the building was completed.