Frederick Douglass: “In my communication with the colored people I have endeavored to deliver them from the power of superstition, bigotry…”

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

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.