Frederick Douglass: “To be a restraint upon cruelty and vice, public opinion must emanate from a humane and virtuous community.”

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.

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.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

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