To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever... I saw nothing without seeing it, I heard nothing without hearing it, and felt nothing without feeling it. It looked from every star, it smiled in every calm, breathed in every wind, and moved in every storm.

I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.