children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.

The Southern newspapers, with their advertisements of negro sales and personal descriptions of fugitive slaves, supply details of misery that it would be difficult for imagination to exceed. Scorn, derision, insult, menace - the handcuff, the last - the tearing away of children from parents, of husbands from wives - the weary trudging in droves along the common highways, the labor of body, the despair of mind, the sickness of heart - these are the realities which belong to the system, and form the rule, rather that the exception, in the slave's experience.

children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

... it's always determined characters who make the greatest fools.

Carols of gladness ring from every tree.

I want to do everything in the world that can be done.