Frederick Douglass: “The promise had but one fault; it seemed too good to be true.”

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

The sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.