Frederick Douglass: “They not only “took me in when a stranger” and “fed me when hungry,” but taught me how to make an honest living.”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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.

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.