Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere

No man can be truly free whose liberty is dependent upon the thought, feeling and action of others, and who has himself no means in his own hands for guarding, protecting, defending and maintaining that liberty

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

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

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

I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.