"I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed…"

"For revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival."

"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."

"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle."

"Slavery is a system of fraud and blood."