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

"I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted."

"The white man’s religion is a lie."

"If he knows as much when he is sober as an Irishman knows when drunk, he knows enough to vote, on good American principles. [Laughter and applause.]"

"I feel greatly embarrassed when I attempt to address an audience of white people. I am not used to speak to them, and it makes me tremble when I do so, because I have always looked up to them with fea…"