Frederick Douglass — "I have seen enough of slavery to know that it is a curse to the master as well a…"

"I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."

"I contend that the Negro, as a man, can and ought to be a voter, and if he cannot be one, his condition is not removed from that of a chattel."

"The fact is, the people of the South are not more in favor of slavery, than the people of the North are opposed to it."

"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."

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