Frederick Douglass: “Its mission was the redemption of the world from the bondage of ages.”

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

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.