Frederick Douglass: “The work of instructing my dear fellow-slaves was the sweetest engagement with which I was ever blessed.”

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

I wished it was possible I could remain small all my life, knowing that the sooner I grew large the shorter would be my time to remain with them.

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.