...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.'

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

The destiny of the colored American ... is the destiny of America.

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .

It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.