Frederick Douglass: “Anguish and grief, like darkness and rain, may be described, but joy and gladness, like the rainbow of promise, defy…”

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

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

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

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