Frederick Douglass: “The marvel is not that we are poor in such circumstances, but rather that we were not exterminated.”

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

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

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