Frederick Douglass: “It is a silent example, to be sure, but it is one that speaks louder than words.”

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

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

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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