Frederick Douglass: “Radicalism, so far from being odious, is not the popular passport to power.”

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.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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