"A man's rights are not to be determined by the color of his skin, or in any other way than by the measure of his manhood."

"There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."

"Agitate, agitate, agitate!"

"I am not for Negro equality, but for the equality of all men."

"I have not, and never had, any desire to be a white man, but I have a desire to be a man, and to be treated as a man."