Frederick Douglass: “Within that circumference, there resides a people which have no superiors in point of enlightenment, liberality, and…”

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

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

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.