...of whom I can say with a grateful heart, 'I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in.'

When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

Right is of no sex, truth is of no color.

A man is worked on by what he works on.

I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity...

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.