Frederick Douglass: “It would be easy to silence anti-slavery agitation if refusing its agents the use of halls and churches could effect…”

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.