"The highest function of a citizen is to question authority."

"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 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…"

"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."

"Though Mr. Lincoln shared the prejudices of his white fellow-countrymen against the Negro, it is hardly necessary to say that in his heart of hearts he loathed and hated slavery . . . Viewed from the …"