"Virginia was never nearer emancipation than when General Turner kindled the fires of insurrection at Southampton."

"Oh! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I would today pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is…"

"The man who has suffered the wrong is the man to demand the right—the man who has suffered the wrong is the man to describe the wrong—the man who has suffered the wrong is the man to expose the wrong—…"

"I feel greatly embarrassed when I attempt to address an audience of white people. I am not used to speak to them, and it makes me tremble when I do so, because I have always looked up to them with fea…"

"We must make him [the slave owner] feel that there is death in the air about him, that there is death in the pot before him, that there is death all around him. We must do this in some way. It can be …"