Frederick Douglass: “The key-stone to the arch of this grand union of forces of the slave party is the so-called Compromise of 1850.”

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

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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