Frederick Douglass: “The slightest manifestation of sympathy or justice toward a person of color, was denounced as abolitionism; and the name…”

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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

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

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