Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

Everybody has asked the question . . . 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us!

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a shelter under…which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection