Frederick Douglass: “The equality of nature is strongly asserted in childhood, and childhood requires children for associates.”

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

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

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.