Frederick Douglass: “The men who went to Kansas with the purpose of making it a free State, were the heroes and martyrs.”

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

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.