You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
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 conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
One and God make a majority.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
