“It ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.” 

“The awake share a common world, but the asleep turn aside into private worlds.” 

“The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.” 

“Silence, healing.” 

“The sun is new each day.” 

“The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.” 

“Allow yourself to think only those thoughts that match your principles and can bear the bright light of day. Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become. Your integrity determines your destiny.” 

“How can you hide from what never goes away?” 

“We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.” 

“Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.” 

“The Only Thing That Is Constant Is Change -” 

“You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.” 

“Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.” 

“He was whipped oftener who was whipped easiest.” 

“For no man who lives at all lives unto himself. He either helps or hinders all who are in anywise connected to him.” 

“They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith.” 

“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. It is just as criminal to rob a man of his right to speak and hear as it would be to rob him of his money.” 

“How do you feel," said a friend to me, "when you are hooted and jeered on the street on account of your color?" "I feel as if an ass had kicked, but had hit nobody," was my answer.” 

“Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.” 

“One and God make a majority.” 

“From apparently the basest metals we have the finest toned bells.” 

“Having no resources within himself, he was compelled to be the copyist of many, and being such, he was forever the victim of inconsistency;” 

“What upon Earth is the matter with the American people? Do they really covet the world's ridicule as well as their own social and political ruin?” 

“The Irish, who, at home, readily sympathize with the oppressed everywhere, are instantly taught when they step upon our soil to hate and despise the Negro...Sir, the Irish-American will one day find out his mistake.”