"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…"

"I would rather be a slave in form than in fact."

"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed."

"The white man's happiness can not be purchased by the black man's misery."

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning."