Frederick Douglass: “For who is there so cold that a nation’s sympathy could not warm him?”

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.

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

Lincoln was not only a great President, but a GREAT MAN--too great to be small in anything.

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.