Frederick Douglass: “So that he has grown up unequal, unsymmetrical, and is no longer a vertical, well-rounded man, in body or in mind.”

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.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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.