Frederick Douglass: “In spite of a common nature and the equality framed into law, this hate works injustice, of which each in their own name…”

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

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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