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.

By unrighteousness man prospers, gains what appears desirable, conquer enemies, but perishes a the root.

It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.

You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.

If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that ``all men are created equal;'' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.