Frederick Douglass: “It is a crafty invention and is in every way worthy of its inventors.”

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

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

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.