Frederick Douglass: “Wherever slavery is found, these horrid instruments are also found.”

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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.