If There's No Struggle, There's No Progress.

Having Despised Us, It Is Not Strange That Americans Should Seek To Render Us Despicable; Having Enslaved Us, It Is Natural That They Should Strive To Prove Us Unfit For Freedom; Having Denounced Us As Indolent, It Is Not Strange That They Should Cripple Our Enterprises.

I Love The Pure, Peaceable, And Impartial Christianity Of Christ; I Therefore Hatethe Corrupt, Slaveholding, Women-whipping, Cradle-plundering, Partial, And Hypocritical Christianity Of This Land. Indeed, I Can See No Reason, But The Most Deceitful One, For Calling The Religion Of This Land Christianity. I Look Upon It As The Climax Of All Misnomers, The Boldest Of All Frauds, And The Grossest Of All Libels.

The District Of Columbia Is The One Spot Where There Is No Government For The People, Of The People And By The People.

Everybody Has Asked The Question, ... 'what Shall We Do With The Negro?' I Have Had But One Answer From The Beginning. Do Nothing With Us! You're Doing With Us Has Already Played The Mischief With Us. Do Nothing With Us! If The Apples Will Not Remain On The Tree Of Their Own Strength, ... Let Them Fall! I Am Not For Tying Or Fastening Them On The Tree In Any Way, Except By Nature's Plan, And If They Will Not Stay There, Let Them Fall. And If The Negro Cannot Stand On His Own Legs, Let Him Fall Also.

Going To Live At Baltimore Laid The Foundation, And Opened The Gateway, To All My Subsequent Prosperity.