"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence."

"Slavery is a system of fraud and blood."

"A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box."

"I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted."

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."