As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate.

A man is worked on by what he works on.

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

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.

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

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

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by which men can only be made free.