I hold if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands.

I believe the Declaration that 'all men are created equal' is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

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.

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.

When a woman is allowed to become a man's equal, she becomes his superior.