Frederick Douglass: “The idea that righteousness exalteth a nation, and that sin is a reproach to any people, was, for a time, lost sight of.”

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

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

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

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.