Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.

This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

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.

...of whom I can say with a grateful heart, 'I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in.'

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.