Frederick Douglass: “But these are just the men who are valuable and who are wanted at home.”

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

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.

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.