Frederick Douglass: “How far any such thing could have succeeded, I do not know; but many reasons led me to prefer that my friends should…”

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

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

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

Covey succeeded in breaking me--in body, soul, and spirit.