Frederick Douglass — "Slavery is a system of fraud and blood."

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

"The destiny of the colored American, however, is not a question for the colored people themselves, but for the American people at large."

"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."

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

"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."