Frederick Douglass: “I loved all mankind—slaveholders not excepted; though I abhorred slavery more than ever.”

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

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