Frederick Douglass: “All that is necessary to be done is to make the government consistent with itself, and render the rights of the States…”

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

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

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

My grandmother was all the world to me, and the thought of being separated from her was a most unwelcome suggestion to my affections and hopes.