Frederick Douglass: “Life is not lightly regarded by men of sane minds.”

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

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

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

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.