Frederick Douglass: “The moral cause of trouble in the system of slavery being now removed, peace and harmony are possible, and, I doubt not…”

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

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

Father he might be, and not be husband, and could sell his own child without incurring reproach, if in its veins coursed one drop of African blood.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.