Frederick Douglass: “Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may.”

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

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

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.