The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

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

Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.

Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.