“A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.”

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

Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.

Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist.

A smile or a tear has no nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!

Neither we, nor any other people, will ever be respected till we respect ourselves and we will never respect ourselves till we have the means to live respectfully.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

A man is worked on by what he works on.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.

The destiny of the colored American is the destiny of America.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.

The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow’s harvest depends upon today’s ploughing and sowing.

In the school and in the State for the good of the people; to carve as it were into the conscience of the nation the ordinances of the Lord

With your hands carve out your own destiny.

Into the soft sand I will carve your name and let the ocean steal what little remains.

His love held the scent of lavenders, as i carved them into poetry.

I want to carve my insides out with a rusty spoon. It would be less painful.