"Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them."

"I am a slave, you are a slave, and I will be free."

"The ruling parties of the country have now flung off all disguises, and have openly and shamelessly declared war upon the only saving principles known to nations."

"We must make him [the slave owner] feel that there is death in the air about him, that there is death in the pot before him, that there is death all around him. We must do this in some way. It can be …"

"I am not for Negro equality, but for the equality of all men."