Frederick Douglass: “If the influences against us are strong, those for us are also strong.”

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

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

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

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.