Frederick Douglass: “But by this decision of the Supreme Court the fourteenth amendment has been slain in the house of its friends.”

We (the people of the North) are a charitable people, and in the excess of this feeling we were disposed to put the very best construction upon the strange behavior of our southern brethren.

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

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

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.