Frederick Douglass: “His very presence was fearful, and I shunned him as I would have shunned a rattlesnake.”

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

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

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

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.