Frederick Douglass

The slave is bound to mankind by the powerful and inextricable net-work of human brotherhood.

It is beyond the power of slavery to annihilate affinities recognized and established by the Almighty.

The growth of intelligence, the influence of commerce, steam, wind, and lightning are our allies.

England, France, and Germany, the three great lights of modern civilization, are with us, and every American traveler learns to regret the existence of slavery in his country.

In addition to authors, poets, and scholars at home, the moral sense of the civilized world is with us.

If the anti-slavery movement shall fail now, it will not be from outward opposition, but from inward decay.

One flash from the heart-supplied intellect of Harriet Beecher Stowe could light a million camp fires in front of the embattled host of slavery, which not all the waters of the Mississippi, mingled as they are with blood, could extinguish.

A thousand strong men might be struck down, and its ranks still be invincible.

Anti-slavery is no longer a thing to be prevented.

The great idea of impartial liberty is now fairly before the American people.

There is no denying, for it is everywhere admitted, that the anti-slavery question is the great moral and social question now before the American people.

Nevertheless, there is that within which ever pleads for the right and the just.