Frederick Douglass: “The quiet prayer meeting, and the stormy halls of national debate, share its presence alike.”

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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.

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