In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the Law, no rich, no poor, no high, ….

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is ….

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

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence..

No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lig….

No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant..

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get..

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my….

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowi….

What is possible for me is possible for you..

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress..

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own c….

Without a struggle, there can be no progress..

Education means emancipation. It means light and liberty. It means the uplifting of the soul of man into the glorious light of truth, the light by wh….

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

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down..

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free..

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

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave..

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

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized co….