Frederick Douglass: “The condition of a slave is simply that of the brute beast.”

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

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 believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.