Frederick Douglass: “Oh! she was to me a mother and a father, so far as hard toil for my comfort could make her such.”

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

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

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