Frederick Douglass: “They no longer fear lest a word of liberty should fall into the ear of a trembling captive and awaken his manhood.”

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

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

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.