Frederick Douglass: “That good old maxim, which has come down to us from revolutionary times, that error may be safely tolerated, while truth…”

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

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

His iron sentences, cold and harsh, sunk like heavy weights deep into my heart, and stirred up within me a rebellion not soon to be allayed.

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.