"I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed…"

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

"Virginia was never nearer emancipation than when General Turner kindled the fires of insurrection at Southampton."

"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."

"A man's rights are not to be determined by the color of his skin, or in any other way than by the measure of his manhood."