Frederick Douglass: “O, why was I born a man, of whom to make a brute!”

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

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

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.