"The man who has suffered the wrong is the man to demand the right—the man who has suffered the wrong is the man to describe the wrong—the man who has suffered the wrong is the man to expose the wrong—…"

"Slavery is a system of fraud and blood."

"I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."

"There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."

"The Republican Party is only negatively anti-slavery. It is opposed to the political power of slavery, rather than to slavery itself."