Frederick Douglass: “Henry loved liberty for himself, but this man loved liberty for all men, and for those most despised and scorned, as…”

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

Guilty or not guilty, to be accused was to be sure of a flogging.

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.

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