Frederick Douglass: “Main strength--human muscle--unassisted by intelligent skill, was slavery’s method of labor.”

I looked into this kitchen with peculiar interest, and remembered that it was there I last saw my mother.

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

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

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.