"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder an…"

"I have always been more deeply interested in the welfare of the colored people than in any merely personal matter."

"Truth is of no color, country, or creed. It is universal."

"The destiny of the colored American, however, is not a question for the colored people themselves, but for the American people at large."

"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They…"