It is not a liberty of circumstance, conceded to us alone, that we wish; it is the adoption absolute of the principle that no man, born red, black or white, can be the property of his fellow man.

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man

I generally don't think most situations can be labeled as black or white.

The revolution of Saint Domingo was taking its course. I saw that the whites could not endure, because they were divided and because they were overpowered by numbers; I congratulated myself that I was a black man.