"My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behol…"

"I did not run away from the South, I ran away from slavery."

"For revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival."

"I have been branded a 'disturber of the peace.'"

"If the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!"