Frederick Douglass: “Americans have too little memory for good or bad political conduct.”

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

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

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

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