I have often wished myself a beast. I preferred the condition of the meanest reptile to my own. Any thing, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my condition that tormented me. There was no getting rid of it. It was pressed upon me by every object within sight or hearing, animate or inanimate.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

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

A man is worked on by what he works on.

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.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!