Frederick Douglass: “Reader! are you with the man-stealers in sympathy and purpose, or on the side of their down-trodden victims?”

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

True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.

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

A son of toil himself, he was linked in brotherly sympathy with the sons of toil in every loyal part of the republic.