Wherever There Is A Human Being, I

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?

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

You Can Not Possibly Have A Broader Basis For Government Than That Which Includes All The People, With All Their Rights In Their Hands, And With An Equal Power To Maintain Their Rights.

Tell A Man Whose House Is On Fire To Give A Moderate Alarm; Tell Him To Moderately Rescue His Wife From The Hands Of The Ravisher; Tell The Mother To Gradually Extricate Her Babe From The Fire Into Which It Has Fallen - But Urge Me Not To Use Moderation In A Cause Like The Present.

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.