Frederick Douglass: “Something must, however, be pardoned to the spirit of liberty, especially in those who have but recently acquired…”

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

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.