The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.

I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

In a composite nation like ours, as before the law, there should be no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no white, no black, but common country, common citizenship, equal rights and a common destiny.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.