Frederick Douglass — "I am a slave, you are a slave, and I will be free."

"I here and now denounce his so-called emancipation as a stupendous fraud — a fraud upon him, a fraud upon the world."

"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."

"The man who has suffered the wrong is the man to demand the right—the man who has suffered the wrong is the man to describe the wrong—the man who has suffered the wrong is the man to expose the wrong—…"

"A man's rights are not to be determined by the color of his skin, or in any other way than by the measure of his manhood."

"What is the use of a man if he is not free?"