Frederick Douglass: “No colored man was really free while residing in a slave State.”

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

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.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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