Frederick Douglass: “My separation had been as complete as if I had been an inhabitant of another planet.”

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.