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.
As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate.
It was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read.
Viewed from the genuine abolition ground, Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined.
They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.
We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.
Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.
Now, take the Constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.
Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.
Allow us the dignity to fight for our own freedom.