Frederick Douglass: “We are asked not only why hold a convention, but with emphasis, why hold a colored convention?”

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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

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.