Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
You are loosed from your moorings, and are free; I am fast in my chains, and M a slave! You move merrily before the gentle gale, and I sadly before the bloody whip! You are freedoms swift winged angel...
The Christianity of America is a Christianity, of whose votaries it may be as truly said, as it was of the ancient scribes and Pharisees, 'They bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay th...
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...
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
It was worth half-cent to kill a nigger, and a half-cent to bury one.
Experience is a keen teacher;
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.
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...
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
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.
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.