Frederick Douglass: “Alas! fellow-citizens, there is no right so neglected as the negro’s right.”

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.