Frederick Douglass: “Why should these young men, who were led into this scheme by me, suffer as much as the instigator?”

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.

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

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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