Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.

A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.

We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.