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.

Once you read, you will be free forever.

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

...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.'

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.