It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.

A slave is someone who sits down and waits for someone to free them.

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

Intelligence is a great leveller here as elsewhere

Let us render the tyrant no aid.

It's a poor rule that won't work both ways.

He who would be free must strike the first blow.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

Liberty for all; chains for none.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not a convincing argument, is needed.

Oppression makes a wise man mad.

In life, you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

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

What is possible for me is possible for you.

Once you read, you will be free forever.

Never in the way, and never out of the way.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

You had better have one King than five hundred.