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A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

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

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

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.

Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.

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

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has...

There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

That which is inhuman cannot be divine.

Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.

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