Frederick Douglass: “Some will be more successful than others, and poverty, in many cases, is the result of misfortune rather than of crime…”

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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

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