Frederick Douglass: “It must stand unharmed, or it does not stand at all.”

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

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.

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.