Frederick Douglass: “Its chief effect was to produce alarm and terror among the class subject to its operation, and this it did most…”

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.

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

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.

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