Frederick Douglass: “A wink or a nod from such men might unchain the hand of violence and set order and law at defiance.”

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.