Frederick Douglass: “They taught me that all colored men were not light-hearted triflers, incapable of serious thought or effort.”

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

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

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