"I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed…"

"I did not hesitate to let it be known of me, that the white man who expected to succeed in whipping, must also succeed in killing me."

"I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Ind…"

"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."

"I would rather be a free man and a poor one, than a rich slave."