Frederick Douglass: “Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us.”

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.

No word of retaliation when a black man is slain by a rebel in cold blood.

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.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.