Frederick Douglass: “I was never more quickly or more completely put at ease in the presence of a great man, than in that of Abraham Lincoln.”

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

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.