Frederick Douglass — "The white man's happiness can not be purchased by the black man's misery."

"I would rather be a slave in form than in fact."

"Never was there a clearer case of “stealing the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in.” I am filled with unutterable loathing when I contemplate the religious pomp and show, together wit…"

"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…"

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

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