What Wilberforce was endeavoring to win from the British Senate by his magic eloquence, the Slaves themselves were endeavoring to gain by outbreaks and violence. The combined action of one and the other wrought out the final result. While one showed that slavery was wrong, the other showed that it was dangerous as well as wrong.
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"I am a slave, you are a slave, and I will be free."
"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 was sometimes prompted to take my life, and that of Covey, but was prevented by a combination of hope and fear."
"I would rather be a slave in form than in fact."
"The destiny of the colored American, however, is not a question for the colored people themselves, but for the American people at large."
Speech at the 23rd West India Emancipation celebration at Canandaigua, New York
Date: 1857
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