Frederick Douglass: “Now, men who openly defraud the Negro of his vote by all manner of artifice, who justify it and boast of it in the face…”

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.

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

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

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.