Frederick Douglass: “There is hope for a people when their laws are righteous whether for the moment they conform to their requirements or…”

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

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

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.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.