Frederick Douglass: “I was sometimes tempted to take my life and that of Covey, but was prevented by a combination of hope and fear.”

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

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.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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