Frederick Douglass: “Its reiteration and agitation only serves to fan the flame of popular prejudice and to add insult to to injury.”

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

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

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

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.