Frederick Douglass: “I take it that no apology is needed for these annual celebrations, for, notwithstanding the unfriendly outlook of…”

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

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

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

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.