Frederick Douglass: “Take the ballot from the Negro and you take from him the means and motives that make for education.”

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

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

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.

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