Frederick Douglass: “I have no words to describe to you the deep agony of soul which I experienced on that never-to-be-forgotten morning—for…”

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.

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.

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.