I am not wanting in the purpose, though I may fail in the strength, to maintain my freedom from bad influences. ... May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

It is a struggle for maintaining in the world, that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men.

I think the negro is included in the word 'men' used in the Declaration of Independence.

Understanding the spirit of our institutions to aim at the elevation of men, I am opposed to whatever tends to degrade them.

I have some little notoriety for commiserating the oppressed condition of the negro; and I should be strangely inconsistent if I could favor any project for curtailing the existing rights of white men, even though born in different lands, and speaking different languages from myself.

I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.