"England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and fir…"

"I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she…"

"Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not alw…"

"Neither the planters nor the Colonization Society, seem to ask what right we have to remove people from the places wh…"

"We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate."

"They [the slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom—jumped into the waves for freedom—starved for freedom—fought li…"

"In the first place, an unjust law exists in this Commonwealth, by which marriages between persons of different color …"

"In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the c…"

"I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and a…"

"Pillars are fallen at thy feet, Fanes quiver in the air, A prostrate city is thy seat, And thou alone art there."