Frederick Douglass: “Washington owes nothing to Maryland or Virginia (though born of those parents) in comparison to its debt to the nation.”

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

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

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

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