Frederick Douglass: “So the great world was opening upon me, and I was eagerly acquainting myself with its multifarious lessons.”

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

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

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

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.