Frederick Douglass: “As one genuine bankbill is worth more than a thousand counterfeits, so is one man, with right on his side, worth more…”

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

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

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

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.