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

"The arm of the Lord is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear."

"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."

"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."

"To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony."