Frederick Douglass:

Sir, I have been frequently denounced because I have dared to speak against the American nation, against the Church—the Northern churches especially, charging them with being the slaveholders of the country. I desire to say here, as elsewhere, that I am not at all ambitious of the ill opinions of my countrymen, nor do I desire their hatred; but I must say, as I have said, that I want no man’s friendship, no matter how high he may stand in Church or State, I want no man’s sympathies or approbation who is not ready to strike the chains from the limbs of my brethren. . .

• Frederick points out how he doesn't care about those people who owns slaves, regardless of their status. He doesn't want the sympathy from any men who isn't ready to stand against slavery.
• This quote correlates to the lecture by illustrating that the people in lecture fight for a greater cause which is civil rights. I picked this quote for one because I have always been a fan of Frederick Douglass, and always like what he stood for. In this quote especially he stood up for his position of ending slavery despite what others thought and felt.

Susan B. Anthony:
And had your honor submitted my case to the jury, as was clearly your duty, even when I should have had just cause of protest, for not one of those men was my peer; but, native or foreign, white or black, rich or poor, educated or ignorant, awake or asleep, sober or drunk, each and every man of them was my political superior; hence, in no sense, my peer."

• What Susan is expressing is how unfair she is being treated by being prosecuted in front of a group of people who are not her peers. Susan is a WOMAN being charged for breaking the law for voting in front of men who started out with this unalienable right to rights she wish she had. How could she have a fair and just trial when she's loosing before she even begins to fight? Her jury peers would have a group of both men and woman. If some woman were in the jury selection that would cut the level of bias down.
• I understand and agree with Susan's concern that is why I chose this quote. I can relate her concern to what goes on to this day. Jury selection now a days is so hard because everyone wants a fair trial and by having a jury who are open minded and non biased towards the case. I not too long had to do jury duty and the defendant was very worried about who who have his/her fate in their hands.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. But almost all say that such is not the case now. But such was the case, they think, in the Revolution of '75. If one were to tell me that this was a bad government because it taxed certain foreign commodities brought to its ports, it is most probable that I should not make an ado about it, for I can do without them. All machines have their friction; and possibly this does enough good to counterbalance the evil. At any rate, it is a great evil to make a stir about it. But when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer. In other words, when a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army. 

1. Thoreau is explaining in this passage that people have a right to get mad and rebel against its unjust government. When  it comes to the government, you have to deal with the good and the bad.During the revolution of '75 the government was bad. Citizens don't have to deal with the wrong doings that the government puts out. People have to rebel and fight for what they believe in...I picked this passage because  I agree with Thoreau. When the majority of the citizens do not agree with an unjust government and its rules, I say people do have the right to fight for what they believe and rebel against it.
2. Anti slavery activists: Slavery was seen as immoral and a sin; thus rose anti-slavery activist. People like Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were two activist. Anti slavery topic relates to Thoreau's writing because it shows  how Americans who disobey unjust laws.