Frederick Douglass: “I confess, however, that while I was entirely honest in urging them to go, and saw no principle that should bind them to…”

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.