Frederick Douglass: “No people ever had a more lively sense of the value of faithful endeavor to serve their interests than they.”

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.

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

For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.