"I grew up like a neglected weed, — ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it."

"I prayed all night long for my master till the first of March; and all the time he was bringing people to look at me, and trying to sell me."

"I can't die but once. And if I die, I die for freedom."

"I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive; I should fight for…"

"The Lord told me to go, and I went. I ain't never been sorry."