Frederick Douglass: “They were ready to hear, and ready to act when a feasible plan should be proposed.”

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.