Frederick Douglass: “It is one of the damning characteristics of the slave system, that it robs its victims of every earthly incentive to a…”

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

The good to be sought and the evil to be shunned were flung in the balance and weighed against each other.

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.