Did John Brown fail? John Brown began the war that ended American slavery and made this a free Republic.
What is possible for me is possible for you.
I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.
A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
Right is of no Sex-Truth is of no Color-God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.
Educate your sons and daughters, send them to school, and show them that beside the cartridge box, the ballot box, and the jury box, you also have the knowledge box.
If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.
The more men you make free, the more freedom is strengthened, and the more men you give an interest in the welfare and safety of the State, the greater is the security of the State.
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
I escaped from slavery and became a leading abolitionist and speaker.
No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.
In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can’t expect that you’re going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.
Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.
In life you don’t get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.
We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.
Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
Beat and cuff your slave, keep him hungry and spiritless, and he will follow the chain of his master like a dog. Feed and clothe him well, work him moderately, surround him with physical comfort and dreams of freedom intrude.