Frederick Douglass: “The woe pronounced upon those who keep back wages of the laborer by fraud is self-acting and self-executing and certain…”

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

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

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.