It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and past was troubling. I longed for a future too, with hope in it. the desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
Once you learn to read you will be forever free.
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.
Slavery soon proved its ability to divest her of these excellent qualities, and her home of its early happiness. conscience cannot stand much violence.
It was worth half-cent to kill a "nigger", and a half-cent to bury one.
I had a wholesome dread of the consequences of running in debt.
The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart.
Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.
Our destiny is largely in our hands.
The man who is right is a majority. he who has god and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.
A smile or a tear has not nationality; joy and sorrow speak alike to all nations, and they, above all the confusion of tongues, proclaim the brotherhood of man.
The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
Without struggle there can be no forward progress.
My hopes were never brighter than now.
Some know the value of education by having it. I know it's value by not having it.
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
I had as well be killed running as die standing.
The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
It is easier to build strong men, than to repair broken ones.
Without struggle there is no success
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. it never did and it never will.
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.