Frederick Douglass: “I can easily pardon those who have denounced me as ambitious and presumptuous, in view of my persistence in this…”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.