"The American people have always been anxious to know what they shall do with us... I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief.…"

"The arm of the Lord is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear."

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning."

"What, to the slave, is the Fourth of July?"

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