Frederick Douglass: “Where is his freedom of speech? his liberty of the press? and his right of locomotion?”

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.

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

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

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