Frederick Douglass: “They served their day and generation with wisdom, courage, and fortitude, and are an example to this and coming…”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.