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

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

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..

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave..

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….

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..

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..

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

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….

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 ….

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….

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….

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..

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

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, ….

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….

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….

What is possible for me is possible for you..

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

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men..