Frederick Douglass: “The tremendous question for him to decide was whether his country should survive the crisis and flourish, or be…”

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

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

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

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.