Frederick Douglass: “Interested parties are ever ready to fan the flame of animosity and magnify the grounds of hostility in order to gain…”

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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

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

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.