Frederick Douglass: “I was solitary in the world, and alone within the walls of a stone prison, left to a fate of life-long misery.”

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

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

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

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.