Frederick Douglass: “An empty sack is not easily made to stand upright.”

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

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.