Frederick Douglass: “In coming to a fixed determination to run away, we did more than Patrick Henry, when he resolved upon liberty or death.”

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

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

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.