Frederick Douglass: “In their view, citizens are neither black nor white, and all are equals.”

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.