You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.

- Henry Highland Garnet

The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like it…

- Henry Highland Garnet

Think of the undying glory that hangs around the ancient name of Africa and forget not that you are native-born American citizens, and as such, you a…

- Henry Highland Garnet

Resistance! Resistance! No oppressed people have ever secured their liberty without resistance!

- Henry Highland Garnet

In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of sla…

- Henry Highland Garnet

In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to make him contented with a condition of sla…

- Henry Highland Garnet

Neither god, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, …

- Henry Highland Garnet