(Lincoln had a) humane interest in the welfare of my whole race.

In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular colour.

Once he called upon General McClellan, and the President went over to the General's house - a process which I as-sure you has been reversed long since - and Ge…

The characteristic which struck me most was his superabundance of common sense. His power of managing men, of deciding and avoiding difficult questions, surpas…

A colored is a very frightened-to-death Afro-American. A Negro is one that makes it in the system, and he wants to be white. A nigger, he's loud and boisterous…

In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, race was already a weapon in the struggle between absolutism, aristocracy, and the middle class. The warfare spr…

I have watched how steadily the general feeling, as shown at elections, has been rising against Slavery. What a proud thing for England if she is the first Eur…