Frederick Douglass: “Is it not time, then, for every American to awake, and inquire into his duty with respect to this subject?”

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

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

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

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.