Frederick Douglass: “A man’s troubles are always half disposed of, when he finds endurance his only remedy.”

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

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

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.

But we are not here to applaud manly courage, save as it has been displayed in a noble cause.