Frederick Douglass: “I found, in them all, warm hearts and noble spirits.”

It was in the air, and men breathed it and were permeated by it, often when they were quite unconscious of its presence.

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

I believed I should get enough to eat at Covey’s, even if I suffered in other respects, and this to a hungry man is not a prospect to be regarded with indifference.

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