Frederick Douglass: “America will not allow her children to love her.”

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

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