“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.”

Nature has given woman the same powers, and subjected her to the same earth, breathes the same air, subsists on the same food, physical, moral, mental and spiritual. She has, therefore, an equal right with man, in all efforts to obtain and maintain a perfect existence.

The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.

A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

One and God make a majority.

The ballot is the only safety.

A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.

The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle.

I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.

A man, at times, gets something for nothing, but it will, in his hands, amount to nothing.

I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past.

Now, with the Internet, you’re either five years ahead or you’re five years behind, and the music game is catchin’ up right now.

I’m afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan.

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery, not over nature but of ourselves.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’.

Predition is risky, especially of the future.

Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent.