“I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.” 「私は黒人であり、生粋の共和党員である。そして私は自由と前進を求めないような党には、決して属さないつもりだ」[注 2]
“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters.” 「自由には賛成と公言しながら、激しい討論には眉をひそめる者がいる。彼らはまるで、地を耕さずに収穫を得ようとするようなものだ。雷や稲妻を避けて（恵みの）雨だけを欲したり、決して荒れ狂うことのない大洋を望むようなものだ」
“To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.” 「奴隷を満足させるには、彼らを考えの全くない人間にする必要がある。モラルや心のビジョンを暗くし、可能な限り、判断力を完全に破壊する必要がある」
“I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes - a justifier of the most appalling barbarity, a sanctifier of the most hateful frauds, and a dark shelter under which the darkest, foulest, grossest, and most infernal deeds of slaveholders find the strongest protection.” 「私は全くためらうこと無く強く断言する。合衆国南部という所は、全く忌まわしい犯罪の温床であった。最も酷い残虐な行為を正当化し、最も憎むべき詐欺行為を神聖化し、最も極悪非道な行動をする最も暗く汚く野蛮な奴隷所有者が最も強い保護下に置かれる、暗い収容所であった。」
“Without struggle, there is no progress.” 「苦闘なくして前進なし」
“（Lincoln was）the first great man that I talked with in the United States freely who in no single instance reminded me of the difference between himself and myself, of the difference of color.” 「（リンカーンは）合衆国内で私が話した人物の中で最もすぐれていた。彼は、私との間に人間性や皮膚の色の違いを全く感じさせなかった」
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” 「ひとたび読むことを学べば、永遠に自由となるだろう」
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