Frederick Douglass: “I hold that a people too spiritless to defend themselves against unjust imputations, are not worth defending, and are…”

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

It only abolished slavery where it did not exist, and left it intact where it did exist.

The friendless and hungry boy, in his extremest need, found himself in the strong protecting arms of his mother.

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