Frederick Douglass: “I resolved to wait only so long as the offering of a favorable opportunity.”

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

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

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

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.