They suppress the truth rather than take the consequence of telling it, and in so doing prove themselves a part of the human family.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think , and to s...
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It was worth half-cent to kill a nigger, and a half-cent to bury one.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.
At this moment, I saw more clearly than ever the brutalizing effects of slavery upon the slave and slaveholder.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
The louder she screamed, the harder he whipped; and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped longest. He would whip her to make her scream, and whip her to make her hush; and not until overcome b...
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor. But I should be false to the earlierst sentiments of my soul,...
There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.