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

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

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

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.

Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.

Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion?