Frederick Douglass: “A man who has not such an object, either in possession or in prospect, is a nobody and will never be anything else.”

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

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.