Frederick Douglass — "I have no love for America, as such. I have no patriotism. I have no country. I …"

"I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed…"

"I look around and see a nation of hypocrites."

"The Republican Party is only negatively anti-slavery. It is opposed to the political power of slavery, rather than to slavery itself."

"Should a slave, when assaulted, but raise his hand in self defense, the white assaulting party is fully justified by southern, or Maryland, public opinion, in shooting the slave down."

"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.]"