Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

Let ... individuals make the most of what God has given them, have their neighbors do the same, and then do all they can to serve each other. There is no use in one man, or one nation, to try to do or be everything. It is a good thing to be dependent on each other for something, it makes us civil and peaceable.

The Spirit calls me, and I must go.

I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years more to have equal rights for all.