I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.

I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

Symptoms are the body's mother tongue; signs are in a foreign language.

I want you to understand that I respect the rights of the poorest and weakest of colored people, oppressed by the slave system, just as much as I do those of the most wealthy and powerful. That is the idea that has moved me, and that alone.

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.