Frederick Douglass: “I was living among freemen, and was in all respects equal to them by nature and attainments.”

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.