Frederick Douglass: “By all around, above, below, Be ours the indignant answer, No!”

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

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

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

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