In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

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

The church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.... For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! Welcome atheism! Welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by these Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke put together have done!