Frederick Douglass — "I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high indepe…"

"If he knows as much when he is sober as an Irishman knows when drunk, he knows enough to vote, on good American principles. [Laughter and applause.]"

"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."

"We have men-stealers for ministers, women-whippers for missionaries, and cradle-plunderers for church members."

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither …"

"I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted."