Frederick Douglass: “It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

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