Frederick Douglass — "The American church is a stronghold of slavery."

"Abraham Lincoln was not, in the fullest sense of the word, either our man or our model. In his interests, in his associations, in his habits of thought, and in his prejudices, he was a white man. He w…"

"I am not for Negro equality, but for the equality of all men."

"I did not hesitate to let it be known of me, that the white man who expected to succeed in whipping, must also succeed in killing me."

"I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong."

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