Frederick Douglass: “They were in very deed men and women of sorrow, and acquainted with grief.”

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

The anti-slavery platform had performed its work, and my voice was no longer needed.

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.

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.