Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.

One and God make a majority.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

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

Though conscious of the difficulty of learning without a teacher, I set out with high hope, and a fixed purpose, at whatever cost of trouble, to learn how to read.

... and in thinking of my life, I almost forgot my liberty.

There is a class of people who seem to think that if a man should fall overboard into the sea with a Bible in his pocket it would hardly be possible to drown. I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.