The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

These were choice documents to me... They gave tongue to interesting thoughts of my own soul, which had frequently flashed through my mind, and died away for want of utterance.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.

The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

You have to take power. No one gives it.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.