For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage.

I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity…

We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!!

Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.

I will unite with anyone to do good, but with no one to do harm.

A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but by the depth, you have climbed.

From apparently the basest metals we have the finest toned bells.

I had a wholesome dread of the consequences of running into debt.

One and God make a majority.

Experience is a keen teacher.

I will give Mr Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.

My hopes were never brighter than now.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man, not a gentleman can insult me.

Right is of no sex, Truth is of no colour, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.

Our destiny is largely in our hands.