Frederick Douglass: “The doctrine that submission to violence is the best cure for violence did not hold good as between slaves and…”

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

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.