Frederick Douglass: “A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.”

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

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

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

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