Frederick Douglass: “The same boundless welcome is given to all American citizens by Washington.”

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.

Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.

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.