Our destiny is largely in our hands.

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

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.

Freedom is a road seldom travelled by the multitude.

The destiny of the coloured American … is the destiny of America.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnanimity.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.