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

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.

Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

The opposite of compromise is character.

I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.

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

What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world’s ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?

Right is of no sex, Truth is of no color, God is the Father of us all, and we are all Brethren.

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

The man who has the largest capacity for work and thought is the man who is bound to succeed.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Every man should marry. After all, happiness is not the only thing in life.

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. a man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.