If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all of the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.

I had as well be killed running as die standing

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

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

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