Frederick Douglass: “By law, by the constitution of the United States, slavery has no existence in our country.”

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.” I instinctively assented to the proposition, and from that moment I understood the direct pathway from slavery to freedom.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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