Frederick Douglass: “The slave-dealer boldly publishes his infamous acts to the world.”

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

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

The black man (unlike the Indian) loves civilization.

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.