Frederick Douglass: “If they cannot rise to the dignity of white men, they show that they can fall to the degradation of black men.”

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

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.