"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."

"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."

"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…"

"A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box."

"The white man's happiness can not be purchased by the black man's misery."