Frederick Douglass: “In my judgment there never was a band of reformers more unselfish, more consistent with their principles, more ardent in…”

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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.

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

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.