Frederick Douglass: “All that had been done towards suppressing the rebellion and abolishing slavery would have proved of no avail, and the…”

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

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

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

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.