Frederick Douglass: “As the laborer becomes more intelligent he will develop what capital he already possesses--that is the power to organize…”

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

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

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

It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.