Frederick Douglass: “It is not a story to increase our sense of social safety and security, but to fill the imagination with wild and…”

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

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

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.