Frederick Douglass: “For the first time in the many months spent abroad, I was met with proscription on account of my color.”

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

We could not but believe that there existed at the South a latent and powerful Union sentiment which would assert itself at last.

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

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.