I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.
A man's rights rest in three boxes: The ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
A smile or a tear has no nationality. Joy and sorrow speak alike in all nations….
I would unite with anybody to do right; and with nobody to do wrong.
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
Right is of no sex, truth is of no color, God is the father of us all, and we are all brethren.
The Constitution[‘s]...language is ‘we the people;’ not we the white people. Not even we the citizens, not we the privileged class, not we the high, not we the low, but we the people.
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.