Frederick Douglass: “If he is clothed, it is with a view to the increase of his value as property.”

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.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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 sentiment that brings us here to-day is one of the noblest that can stir and thrill the human heart.