Frederick Douglass: “By that answer it will be seen that the force of the objection is, after all, more in sound than in substance.”

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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.