Frederick Douglass: “No man can serve two masters in politics any more than in religion.”

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

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

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.

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.