Frederick Douglass: “I must not assert my innocence of the allegations he had piled up against me, for that would be impudence.”

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

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

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

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.