Frederick Douglass: “What is this but the acknowledgement that the slave is a moral, intellectual, and responsible being.”

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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

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

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