"I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any record containing it."

"I would rather be a slave in form than in fact."

"The liberties of the American people were dependent upon the Ballot-box, the Jury-box, and the Cartridge-box; that without these no class of people could live and flourish in this country."

"The greatest crimes against humanity are not committed by criminals, but by those who stand by and do nothing."

"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."