Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.

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

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

What is possible for me is possible for you.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

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

I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.