This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

He who is by nature not his own but another's man, is by nature a slave.

Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.

Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.

As contraband, fugitive slaves could be collected and used by a Union army just as any other property could be collected and used, and nobody was in any way committed on any side of the slavery issue itself.

The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.

This is what it means to be a slave: to be abused and bear it, compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free.