Frederick Douglass: “The facts that we still live and have increased in higher ratio than the native white people of the South are proofs of…”

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

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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