A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.
True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations.
We must continue to judge of slavery by what it is, and not by what you tell us it will, or may be.
But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts.
To no human charter am I indebted for my rights.
It, sometimes, suits the slaveholders to claim, that their slavery is an exclusively State concern; and that the North has, therefore, nothing to do with it.
God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.
Surfaces simultaneously reveal and conceal.
The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.
I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.
I had no idea how much the stuff I was doing was affecting people outside Oakland. At the time, also, hip hop wasn't able to tour because all these clubs that let hip hop come in now, they would never have let hip hop come in.