Frederick Douglass: “I have adopted a maxim laid down by Napoleon, never to occupy ground which the enemy would like me to occupy.”

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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.