Frederick Douglass: “There can be no doubt as to which of these methods of treating the Southern question is the most honest and safe one.”

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.

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

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.