Frederick Douglass: “Why, we have slavery made part of the religion of the land.”

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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

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