Frederick Douglass: “The laws which determine the destinies of individuals and nations are impartial and eternal.”

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

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.