Frederick Douglass: “No woman need be ashamed to confront one who has insulted or assaulted her in any court of law.”

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

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

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

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