Frederick Douglass: “In it are the best elements of the American people, and if any good is to come to us politically it will be through that…”

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

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

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.