Frederick Douglass: “This contest was now ended; my chains were broken, and the victory brought me unspeakable joy.”

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.