"I am not here to argue with you, but to tell you what I know."

"I have not, and never had, any desire to be a white man, but I have a desire to be a man, and to be treated as a man."

"I here and now denounce his so-called emancipation as a stupendous fraud — a fraud upon him, a fraud upon the world."

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

"I have seen enough of slavery to know that it is a curse to the master as well as to the slave."