Frederick Douglass: “My detestation of slavery, already great, rose with this new conception of its enormity.”

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.