I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

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

If there's no struggle, there's no progress.

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.

My hopes were never brighter than now.

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