Frederick Douglass: “The downward tendency, already manifest, has swept away some of the most important safeguards of justice and liberty.”

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

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.

The father might be a white man, glorying in the purity of his Anglo-Saxon blood, and his child ranked with the blackest slaves.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.