Frederick Douglass: “There is no salvation for either outside of a life of truth and justice.”

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

This was a new and special revelation, dispelling a painful mystery against which my youthful understanding had struggled, and struggled in vain, to wit, the white man’s power to perpetuate the enslavement of the black man.

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

Slavery had no recognition of fathers, as none of families.