Frederick Douglass: “I was living among freemen, and was in all respects equal to them by nature and attainments.”

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

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

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

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