Frederick Douglass: “What! servants of thy own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless and the outcast, fettering down The…”

Our very lack of preparation for the conflict disposed us to look for some other than the way of blood out of the difficulty.

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

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.

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.