Frederick Douglass: “Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.”

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.