Frederick Douglass: “The President is not the autocrat, but the executive of the nation.”

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

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

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.