"Prejudice against color is stronger north than south; it hangs around my neck like a heavy weight."

"The murderer is better protected than the man without crime. The robber is better protected than the robbed."

"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle."

"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."

"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…"