People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.
Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. Show me the exact amount of wrong and injustices that are visited upon a person and I will show you the exact amount of words endured by these people.
Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or overseers.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
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