Frederick Douglass: “The morality of the act I dispose of as follows: I am myself; you are yourself; we are two distinct persons, equal…”

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

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

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.