Frederick Douglass: “Such leaders should remember that men will not be religious when the devil turns preacher.”

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.

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

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