Frederick Douglass: “They taught me that all colored men were not light-hearted triflers, incapable of serious thought or effort.”

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.

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

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.

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