Frederick Douglass: “They dance and sing, and make all manner of joyful noises—so they do; but it is a great mistake to suppose them happy…”

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.