It [slavery] has exercised absolute mastery over the American Church. . . . With the Bible in their hands, her priesthood have attempted to prove that slavery came down from God out of heaven. They have become slaveholders and dealers in human flesh.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

Since the creation of the world there has been no tyrant like Intemperance, and no slaves so cruelly treated as his.

Everyone should be treated fairly no matter what they look like.

A man's country is the world.

To say that everything in the bible is to be believed , simply because it is found in that volume, is equally absurd and pernicious... To discard a portion of scripture is not necessarily to reject the truth, but may be the highest evidence that one can give of his love of truth.

Let Southern oppressors tremble-let their secret abettors tremble-let their Northern apologists tremble-let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.