Frederick Douglass: “The lynchers and mobocrats are not like other men, nor is the Negro hedged about by the same protection accorded other…”

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

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