Frederick Douglass: “In a circle so brilliant, it is no affectation of modesty to say I was for the most part a listener and a learner.”

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.

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

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.