Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.

Freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print.

Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

No free people can lose their liberties while they are jealous of liberty. But the liberties of the freest people are in danger when they set up symbols of liberty as fetishes, worshipping the symbol instead of the principle it represents.