Frederick Douglass: “They are taught less by theories than by facts and events.”

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

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.

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