Frederick Douglass: “Those who abolished slavery did their work, and did it well.”

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.