Frederick Douglass — "The man who is not a Abolitionist is a slaveholder."

"Agitate, agitate, agitate!"

"My natural elasticity was crushed, my intellect languished, the disposition to read departed, the cheerful spark that lingered about my eye died; the dark night of slavery closed in upon me; and behol…"

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither …"

"I have always been more deeply interested in the welfare of the colored people than in any merely personal matter."

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