Frederick Douglass: “Their cause is one with the labor classes all over the world.”

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.