Frederick Douglass: “But any measure is vindicated by its necessity and its results.”

Treason had shot its poisonous roots deeper, and had spread its death-dealing branches further than any northern calculation had covered.

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

If I have had kicks, I have also had kindness.

Food to the indolent is poison, not sustenance.