Frederick Douglass: “It did not do as well by us as Russia did by her serfs, or Pharaoh did by the Hebrews.”

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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.

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

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