Frederick Douglass: “Not from the Heaven of Peace amid the morning stars, but from the hell of war--out of the tempest and whirlwind of…”

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

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

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.