"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could reach the nation's ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting …"

"The man who has suffered the wrong is the man to demand the right."

"I contend that the Negro, as a man, can and ought to be a voter, and if he cannot be one, his condition is not removed from that of a chattel."

"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave."

"Abraham Lincoln was not, in the fullest sense of the word, either our man or our model. In his interests, in his associations, in his habits of thought, and in his prejudices, he was a white man. He w…"