Frederick Douglass — "Prejudice against color is stronger north than south; it hangs around my neck li…"

"Without struggle, there is no progress."

"It is not the light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."

"If the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!"

"The American people have always been a patient people; but there is a limit to the endurance of every people."

"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."