Frederick Douglass: “For one, I say away with such contrivances, such lame and impotent substitutes for the justice and protection due us.”

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

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.