Frederick Douglass: “The charge of laziness against the slave is ever on their lips, and is the standing apology for every species of cruelty…”

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

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

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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