Frederick Douglass — "I would rather be a free man and a poor one, than a rich slave."

"The liberties of the American people were dependent upon the Ballot-box, the Jury-box, and the Cartridge-box; that without these no class of people could live and flourish in this country."

"I have not, and never had, any desire to be a white man, but I have a desire to be a man, and to be treated as a man."

"I have no love for America, as such; I have no patriotism. I have no country. I have no brother, no sister, no father, no mother, no wife, no children, but what are in chains."

"The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."

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