Frederick Douglass: “We were a band of brothers, and never dearer to each other than now.”

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

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

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.