Frederick Douglass: “Time, education, and training will restore him to natural proportions, for, though bruised and blasted, he is yet a man.”

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

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

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

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