Frederick Douglass: “A man’s character greatly takes its hue and shape from the form and color of things about him.”

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.

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

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

It was perhaps better for the country and for mankind that the good man could not know the end from the beginning.