Frederick Douglass: “Both are plundered, and by the same plunderers.”

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

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.

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