Frederick Douglass: “A simple statement of our position vindicates at once our convention and our cause.”

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.