The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.
Liberty for all; chains for none.
The ballot is the only safety.
Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it.
Civil war was not a mere strife for territory and dominion, but a contest of civilization against barbarism.
I love the religion of Christianity – which cometh from above – which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.
Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.
It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways.
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.
A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.
Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity.
Let us render the tyrant no aid.
Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.
To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.
You have to take power. No one gives it.
A man is worked on by what he works on.
Oppression makes a wise man mad.
It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white.