"For, what is slavery? It is the complete and absolute subjection of one person to the control and disposal of another…"

"True democracy makes no enquiry about the color of skin, or the place of nativity, whereever it sees man, it recogniz…"

"No more slave States; no slave Territories."

"All that they seem to say is 'nigger, nigger, nigger'."

"Congress was right in not limiting, by its reconstruction acts, the right of suffrage to whites; but wrong in the exc…"

"The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States."

"When Texas became one of the United States, she entered into an indissoluble relation. All the obligations of perpetu…"

"When Chase, Sumner, Stevens, and Wilson talk to the negro of the importance of having the franchise, and stop short o…"

"The song birds are the sweetest In Kentucky; The thoroughbreds are the fleetest In Kentucky; Mountains tower proudest…"

"“I was raised to remember that I come from those who survived.”"