"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 …"

"I was sometimes prompted to take my life, and that of Covey, but was prevented by a combination of hope and fear."

"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."

"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…"

"I have had but one idea for the last three years, to present the Negro as a man, and to demand his rights as a man."