Frederick Douglass: “Not for thieves and robbers, enemies of society, merely, but for men guilty of no crime.”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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.

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

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