Frederick Douglass: “We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”

Human liberty excludes all idea of home and abroad.

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

He was called upon not merely to administer the government, but to decide, in the face of terrible odds, the fate of the Republic.

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