"I have no love for America, as such; I have no patriotism. I have no country. I have no brother, no sister, no father, no mother, no wife, no children, but what are in chains."

"The American people have always been a patient people; but there is a limit to the endurance of every people."

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

"The American people have always been anxious to know what they shall do with us... I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief.…"

"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning."