Frederick Douglass: “She aimed to keep me ignorant, and I resolved to know, although knowledge only increased my misery.”

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.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.