It Was Unlawful, As Well As Unsafe,

My Great And Exceeding Joy Over These Stupendous Achievements, Especially Over The Abolition Of Slavery (which Had Been The Deepest Desire And The Great Labor Of My Life), Was Slightly Tinged With A Feeling Of Sadness.

I Didn't Know I Was A Slave Until I Found Out I Couldn't Do The Things I Wanted.

From The First I Saw No Chance Of Bettering The Condition Of The Freedman Until He Should Cease To Be Merely A Freedman And Should Become A Citizen.

A Man, At Times, Gets Something For Nothing, But It Will, In His Hands, Amount To Nothing.

For Of All Slaveholders With Whom I Have Ever Met, Religious Slaveholders Are The Worst. I Have Ever Found Them The Meanest And Basest, The Most Cruel And Cowardly, Of All Others.