"Abraham Lincoln was not, in the fullest sense of the word, either our man or our model. In his interests, in his associations, in his habits of thought, and in his prejudices, he was a white man. He w…"

"I am a slave, you are a slave, and I will be free."

"I am not an African, I am an American."

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither …"

"I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any record containing it."