Frederick Douglass: “It is seldom the lot of mortals to have truer and better friends than were the slaves on this farm.”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.