The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization is entirely with ourselves.

People don't follow titles, they follow courage.

All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.

People don't follow titles, they follow courage.

Despotism increases in severity with the number of despots; the responsibility is more divided, and the claims are more numerous.

I would have the Constitution torn in shreds and scattered to the four winds of heaven. Let us destroy the Constitution and build on its ruins the temple of liberty. I have brothers in slavery. I have seen chains placed on their limbs and beheld them captive.