"What Wilberforce was endeavoring to win from the British Senate by his magic eloquence, the Slaves themselves were endeavoring to gain by outbreaks and violence. The combined action of one and the oth…"

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

"I have no love for America, as such; I have no patriotism. I have no country. I have no brother, no sister, no father, no mother, no wife, no children, but what are in chains."

"I am not for Negro equality, but for the equality of all men."

"I have seen enough of slavery to know that it is a curse to the master as well as to the slave."