Frederick Douglass: “The court in which he is tried is a lynching mob.”

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.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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