Frederick Douglass: “These facts show that for his energy, perseverance, eloquence, invective, sagacity, and wide sympathy, he is indebted to…”

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.