Frederick Douglass: “Some of my English friends greatly encouraged me to go forward, and I shall never cease to be grateful for their words…”

The day we celebrate is preëminently the colored man’s day.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

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