I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

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

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us.

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

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