“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
“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.”
“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.”
“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”
“A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”
“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? …. To him, your celebration is a sham….”
“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”
“I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
“One and God make a majority.”
