Frederick Douglass: “It is a crime that awakens the intensest abhorrence and tempts mankind to kill the criminal on first sight.”

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.