Frederick Douglass: “Their ears are made quite familiar with the agonizing cry of outraged and woe-smitted humanity.”

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

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.