...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.'

Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle. The conflict has been exciting, agitating, all-absorbing, and for the time being, putting all other tumults to silence. It must do this or it does nothing. If there is no struggle there is no progress.

The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

I will unite with anyone to do good, but with no one to do harm.