Frederick Douglass: “Man was not made as an attribute to education, but education as an attribute to man.”

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

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.