Frederick Douglass: “They are, therefore, for lynching and against giving a fair trial to the accused.”

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

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

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

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