Frederick Douglass: “The men most bitterly charged with it go to Congress with the largest majorities, while the timid and doubtful are sent…”

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

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

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.