Since The Creation Of The World There

Be Faithful, Be Vigilant, Be Untiring In Your Efforts To Break Every Yoke, And Let The Oppressed Go Free. Come What May - Cost What It May - Inscribe On The Banner Which You Unfurl To The Breeze, As Your Religious And Political Motto - "no Compromise With Slavery! No Union With Slaveholders

Has Not The Experience Of Two Centuries Shown That Gradualism In Theory Is Perpetuity In Practice? Is There An Instance, In The History Of The World, Where Slaves Have Been Educated For Freedom By Their Task-masters?

I Will Be As Harsh As Truth And As Uncompromising As Justice.

My Crime Is That I Will Not Go With The Multitude To Do Evil. My Singularity Is That When I Say That Freedom Is Of God And Slavery Is Of The Devil, I Mean Just What I Say. My Fanaticism Is That I Insist On The American People Abolishing Slavery, Or Ceasing To Prate On The Rights Of Man.

It Is For Us To Discharge The High Duties That Devolve On Us, And Carry Our Race Onward. To Be No Better, No Wiser, No Greater Than The Past Is To Be Little And Foolish And Bad; It Is To Misapply Noble Means, To Sacrifice Glorious Opportunities For The Performance Of Sublime Deeds, To Become Cumberers Of The Ground.