Frederick Douglass: “It made the body more important than the soul; national prosperity more important than national justice.”

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

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.