Frederick Douglass: “Shocking and scandalous as was this attack, the spirit in which the deed was received and commended by the community…”

Greatness does not come to any people on flowery beds of ease.

Inhuman as was this treatment, it was the natural result of the bitter resentment felt by the old master class, and in view of it, the wonder is, not that the colored people of the South have done so little in the way of acquiring a…

This part of our destiny is in our own hands.

Notwithstanding the great and all-abounding darkness of our past, the clouds that still overhang us in the moral and social sky, the defects inherited from a bygone condition of servitude, it is the faith of my soul that this brighter and…