“There can be no slavery in a free land, and consequently no slaves.”

“Birds fly, fish swim, man thinks and learns. Therefore, we do not need schools. We need shrines of learning where people can come and go as they please.”

“I know not what record of sin awaits me in the other world, but this I know, that I was never mean enough to despise any man because he was ignorant, or because he was poor, or because he was black.”

“We have no patent for a specific remedy for slavery. But this we do believe, that if the entire system could be discussed, as a moral, social, and political evil, the people of the slave-holding States, themselves, would find out some way of removing it.”