Frederick Douglass: “The people were more enlightened and had made more progress than their leaders had supposed.”

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

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

The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.

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