"Slavery is a system of fraud and blood."

"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."

"I have not, and never had, any desire to be a white man, but I have a desire to be a man, and to be treated as a man."

"I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ: I therefore hate the corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Ind…"

"I here and now denounce his so-called emancipation as a stupendous fraud — a fraud upon him, a fraud upon the world."