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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.
Despite of it all, the Negro remains... cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine
Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves.
There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.
I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.
The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.
Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.
Conduct yourself towards your parents as you would have your children conduct themselves towards you.
The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .
Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.
Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.
Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.
Heaven's blessing must attend all, and freedom must soon be given to the pining millions under a ruthless bondage.