Liberty for all; chains for none.

If the Negro knows enough to pay taxes to support the government, he knows enough to vote; taxation and representation should go together. If he knows enough to shoulder a musket and fight for the flag, fight for the government, he knows enough to vote.

Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

Abolish slavery tomorrow, and not a sentence or syllable of the Constitution need be altered. It was purposely so framed as to give no claim, no sanction to the claim, of property in man. If in its origin slavery had any relation to the government, it was only as the scaffolding to the magnificent structure, to be removed as soon as the building was completed.

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