Frederick Douglass: “Though slavery was abolished, the wrongs of my people were not ended.”

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

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

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

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.