Frederick Douglass — "I have been branded a 'disturber of the peace.'"

"I did not run away from the South, I ran away from slavery."

"Oh! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation's ear, I would today pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is…"

"I have had but one idea for the last three years, to present the Negro as a man, and to demand his rights as a man."

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."

"The ruling parties of the country have now flung off all disguises, and have openly and shamelessly declared war upon the only saving principles known to nations."