Frederick Douglass: “There was never any physical reason for the dissolution of the Union.”

To make a man a slave was to rob him of moral responsibility.

That the mother was a slave was enough for its deadly purpose.

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.

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