"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future." — Frederick Douglass

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.